But this is not a storyline for a new Narnia book; the attack on Narnia is happening in the real world. Philip Pullman is the author ofHis Dark Materials, a bestselling fantasy trilogy for children that in sales and popularity ranks just behind theHarry Potterseries. This year, the Britis...
The story he told in that yearbook didn’t merely recount a sexual encounter, it did so in a manner degrading to the young woman in question. This isn’t merely the excess of a boy enjoying his own life; it’s the cruelty of a young man for whom at least a part of that joy ...
you know that no matter how carefully you sweep it up, your feet will be picking up slivers of glass, maybe not for seven years, but certainly for a long time.[3]That qualifies as bad luck in my book. If interpreted fairly, it's not superstition...
then Dawkins IS an atheist. He even had his anti-religious book titled “The God Delusion”, not The Biblical Delusion, The Christian Delusion, or The Creationist Delusion. If you really think simply believing in a god is delusional, then you’d have to be asserting that there no ...
Dr. Pilbeam wrote a review of Richard Leakey's bookOriginsin the journalAmerican Scientist: “...perhaps generations of students of human evolution, including myself, have been flailing about in the dark; that our data base is too sparse, too slippery, for it to be able to mold our theor...
The most notorious example of this is the idea, and the book of the same name, of White Fragility. This is an idea which essentially states that any push-back against the claim that I (for example), as a white person, am racist (or at least contribute to the support of systemic raci...
To overcome the huge hurdles of evolution of life from non-living chemicals on earth, Crick proposed, in a book called Life Itself, that some form of primordial life was shipped to the earth billions of years ago in spaceships—by supposedly ‘more evolved’ (therefore advanced) alien beings...
But I saw it in the bookstore at Luton airport, and couldn’t resist buying it for Enrico – and myself. We both read through it quickly, enjoying Dawkins’ elegant prose and wry wit brought to bear on some of our favorite targets. ...
Peel back the layers of abstinence-only or marriage-centered or anti-homosexual sex education and you find religion.“Don’t say gay” laws, laws denying trans kids medical care, school-library book bans and even efforts to suppress the teaching of inconvenient historical facts— motivated by re...
Oh well. At least we’ll have plenty of nuclear weapons for the next decade or so. Agree? Disagree? You should take a moment to let someone know: nursing Labour is never the answer, kids November 22, 2015 byJames I’m reading Owen Jones’s bookThe Establishmentat the moment. It’s ...