Science & Technology
A selection of recent articles on this topic
Reno: Benedict XVI and Islam
Whether or not one agrees with the pope’s historical analysis of de-Hellenization, he is surely right about…
“The Incredibles,” “The Science of Sleep”
“My bonnie lass she smelleth, making all the flowers jealouth.” I’m with you, Anthony . The P.D.Q.…
The Mad Scientists’ Club
The Mad Scientists’ Club Purple House, 217 pages, $17.95 The New Adventures of the Mad Scientists’ Club…
The Miracle of Evolution
There are two fundamentally different battles raging in the current debates about evolution. The first pits nearly…
The Designs of Science
In July 2005 the New York Times published my short essay “Finding Design in Nature.” The reaction…
A Noble Failure
Skepticism and Freedom: A Modern Case For Classical Liberalismby Richard A. Epstein.University of Chicago Press. 311 pp.…
The Antipolitical Temptation
Nothing is more human than discontent with the human condition. And few aspects of human life inspire…
The Best Bioethics That Money Can Buy
“A bioethicist is to ethics what a whore is to sex.” That judgment by a friend who…
Between Beasts and God
Near the beginning of the twenty-fourth and last Book of Homer’s Iliad, called by Simone Weil “the…
Good News from the Court
Good News v. Milford is very good news indeed for advocates of school vouchers and faith-based organizations…
Greek Ways: How the Greeks Created Western Civilization
When Karl Barth was at the height of his fame and productivity in the years between 1930…
L’Chaim and Its Limits: Why Not Immortality?
You don’t have to be Jewish to drink L’Chaim, to lift a glass “To Life.” Everyone in…
Briefly Noted 31
The Spirit of the Liturgy. By Joseph Cardinal Ratzinger. Translated by John Saward. Ignatius. 232 pp. $17.95…
Overcoming the Scandal of the Christian Mind
How Now Shall We Live?by charles colson and nancy pearceytyndale, 580 pages, $22.99 In 1993, when Washington…
Harry Potter’s Magic
By now most readers in this country are aware of what has come to be called the…
