Questions
St. Augustine Asks the Hard Questions Atheists Don’t Ask by Thomas L. McDonald. It’s fun to read or listen to super-duper-smart professional atheists (well, they think they’re smart) banging on about the book of Genesis. It’s a useful issue for [...]
Rights
Freedom By Association by Michael W. McConnell. Neglect of the full scope of the First Amendment diminishes our rights. More at FT.
Disorders?
LARB reviews All We Have to Fear: Psychiatry’s Transformation of Natural Anxieties into Mental Disorders by Allan V. Horwitz and Jerome C. Wakefield.
Exaggerations
David Barton’s Unfortunate, Unnecessary Exaggerations by Mark Tooley. Secular liberal historians have dismissed or ignored early American religiosity, but the solution is better history, not an exaggeration in the opposite direction. Read more.
Don’t Know
We Don’t Know if Global Warming Is Causing Droughts by Bjørn Lomborg. “Everyone knows” that you should drink eight glasses of water a day. After all, this is the advice of a multitude of health writers, not to mention authorities [...]
Prog 4 & 5
Here’s the last two in a series of posts on progressive rock by David Weigel. Part 4 Part 5
Dignity
Matthew D. Wright reviews Dignity: Its History and Meaning by Michael Rosen.