Dershowitz and Bennett on the cowardice of our press: When we were attacked on Sept. 11, we knew the main reason for the attack was that Islamists hated our way of life, our virtues, our freedoms. What we never imagined was that the free press — an institution at the heart of those virtues and… Continue reading

Dan Brown, cracker-jack researcher. (Um, NOT.) As I’ve written in my book, to this day, ignorance and misunderstanding of Lemaître’s background and his specialty continues to color popular accounts of his work in the most slipshod fashion. This is most amusingly on display in Dan Brown’s lightweight thriller Angels and Demons, where he refers to… Continue reading

Leon Wieseltier takes Daniel C. Dennett to the wood shed: In his own opinion, Dennett is a hero. He is in the business of emancipation, and he reveres himself for it. “By asking for an accounting of the pros and cons of religion, I risk getting poked in the nose or worse,” he declares, “and… Continue reading

Angela Hoy unloads: Forgive me while I step up onto my soapbox today. I am SO tired (whine!) of receiving book manuscripts from convicted felons who have written books about the government conspiracies waged against them. Yup.

Victor Davis Hanson on how Europe may recover itself: Crash an airliner into the dome of St. Peter’s or knock down the Eiffel Tower tomorrow: Europe has no mechanism to hunt down the perpetrators in the Hindu Kush, the Bekka Valley, or the wilds of Iran—much less, like the United States, to hold a rogue… Continue reading