Now that the 2008 Baseball Season is officially beginning, Steve Matheson, biologist, Shakespeare lover and die-hard Red Sox fan, weighs in with some thoughts on hitting streaks, randomness, and miracles. What more could anyone want? Here’s to the 2008 season.

John Wilkins has some April Fool’s Fun with the “No Darwin, No Hitler” crowd.

Hitchens unloads on Clinton and the Bosnian farce.

The Importance of Having a MentorThe late Professor William Alfred, who passed away in 1999, probably defines the word mentor for me better than anyone else I can think of. Long before I came fumbling my way through Harvard, he had inspired and guided huge talents like Tommy Lee Jones, Stockard Channing, and most famously… Continue reading

Does the Advance of Science Mean Secularization? Sociologist (and Anglican cleric) David Martin thinks not: Sociology is a humble affair and definitely not constructed after the model of rocket science or quantum mechanics. That is because it is a subject with a human subject matter. It does, however, operate within certain evidential constraints on matters… Continue reading