John Gray explains why he thinks the world’s traditional religions will be alive and well when evangelical atheism is dead and long forgotten.
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February 21, 2012
Posted in Religion
February 20, 2012
John Glenn recently reunited with the Mercury workers who helped launch him into orbit fifty years ago today.
Posted in Science, Technology
February 16, 2012
Since the beginning of the Arab Spring, U.S. policy has been in deep confusion on the question of state sovereignty—when we should violate it, and when we shouldn’t.
Posted in Foreign Policy
February 15, 2012
In spite of the recession (or perhaps because of it), online dating is a thriving, billion-dollar industry. Too bad the fancy algorithms and “expert” profile-matching are so much snake oil.
Posted in Culture
February 8, 2012
Establishing a fund to “help small businesses” may sound good, but a cheaper idea is easing the fees and regulations that saddle even aspiring ice-cream shop owners with crushing debt and years-long delays before opening their doors.
Posted in Domestic Policy, Economics
February 7, 2012
How lard-loving chef Paula Deen’s recent diabetes diagnosis and a European recall of dangerous breast implants show that neither the government nor the free market alone can fix health care.
Posted in Heath Care
February 6, 2012
We like to think of Charles Dickens as an genius of invention; he might have protested that he was rather a genius of observation. What might he have noticed about our own hard times today?
Posted in Arts & Literature
February 3, 2012
January 31, 2012
“Liberals need to be shaken,” says Jonathan Haidt. They “simply misunderstand conservatives far more than the other way around.”
Posted in Culture
January 30, 2012
Henry Miller’s fiction is today known for its lurid depictions of women as sex objects, but this 1970s-era critique is just one among many takes on the mercurial writer. Charting Tropic of Cancer‘s path from ban to best-seller reveals the cultural critic to be a most unreliable narrator.
Posted in Arts & Literature
January 25, 2012
President Obama is fond of quoting Abraham Lincoln, and this year’s State of the Union address was no exception. Then as ever, he deploys Lincoln’s words to make the precise opposite point than originally intended.
January 23, 2012
After years of reaping only modest returns from the “cultural cesspool” strategy of attacking Hollywood, the GOP may have discovered in internet freedom the perfect political wedge.
Posted in Politics, Technology
