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
On the 197th anniversary of his birth, I think it’s important to reflect on these thoughtful words of Charles Darwin: “To my mind it accords better with what we know of the laws impressed on matter by the Creator, that the production and extinction of the past and present inhabitants of the world should have… Continue reading