Religion, the species
What if religions were like species, evolving — mutating — to best survive […]
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Farewell, sweet passport
My passport hit its expiration date, so it has been replaced. I looked […]
Outline of an Unknowable God, question five
In 2010, Britain’s chief rabbi, Jonathan Sacks, said in response to Hawking and […]
Outline of an Unknowable God, question four
Alyosha, the spiritual Karamazov brother in Dostoevsky’s 1880 novel, receives the following advice: […]
Outline of an Unknowable God, question three
We’re getting pretty close to having built an omniscient mind of our own, […]
A heart attack as essay fodder
My friend Andrew Brown is such a good writer that he manages to […]
Michael Powell profiles Richard Dawkins
Enjoyed this piece on Richard Dawkins, A Knack for Bashing Orthodoxy, by Michael […]
The threat of al Qaeda: dimmed or not?
As the media’s Super Bowl-like lead-up to 9/11 continues, I found myself listening […]
A bite of “Demon Fish”
Two of my fellow Templeton-Cambridge Journalism Fellows were in the New York Times. […]
Deradicalizing child warriors in Pakistan
Feriha Peracha runs perhaps the world’s most unusual boarding school: it’s for 162 […]