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Writers don’t make up myths; they take them over and recast them. Even Homer was telling stories that his audience already knew. If some individuals present weren’t acquainted with Odysseus’s wanderings or the Trojan War ... more >>
Most modern thinkers have not been much concerned with the virtue of wisdom. So it may just be time to put the sapiens back in homo sapiens sapiens ... more >>
Is the biblical tale of Hagar “a creation story as important as the Garden of Eden,” as Charlotte Gordon argues in her provocative new book? ... more >>
Despite the vast number of religions, nearly everyone in the world believes in the same things: the existence of a soul, an afterlife, miracles, and the divine creation of the universe. Recently psychologists doing research on the minds of infants have discovered two related facts that may account for this phenomenon. One: human beings come into the world with a predisposition to believe in supernatural phenomena. And two: this predisposition is an incidental by-product of cognitive functioning gone awry. Which leads to the question, is God an accident ... more >>
Theodore Dalrymple was a prison doctor. So when a philosopher argues that prisons must be closed down, replaced by centers for reintegration, expect him to have an opinion ... more >>
At a certain time nuclear physics occupied the most prominent and most celebrated position in all sciences, and then something went terribly wrong ... more >>
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