What’s wrong with paleoconservatism? Ross Douthat: …paleoconservatism tends to display the weaknesses you would expect from an intellectual movement that hasn’t held power, in any meaningful way, in God knows how long – specifically, a tendency to advance ideas without any regard whatsoever to their practicality, to condemn others for making compromises without pausing the… Continue reading
Freeman Dyson, one of my favorite scientists to read, at TCS Daily: I am especially optimistic just now because of a seminal discovery that was made recently by comparing genomes of different species. David Haussler and his colleagues at UC Santa Cruz discovered a small patch of DNA which they call HAR1, short for Human… Continue reading
Bush and the Press. Seems to me Ross is on the money again. Now there’s a difference, it’s true, between the coverage of Iraq and the coverage of Bush himself, and maybe there’s an argument to be made that even where the national press acquitted itself honorably in its treatment of discrete foreign-policy issues, it… Continue reading
PZ Myers kicks Bill Dembski’s ass. Again.(the guy must be a glutton for punishment)
I’m going to go out on a limb here and predict that this will send PZ and the likeminded into fits of squeaking rage. Happy Easter.