Tuesday, July 31, 2007

Phil Gasper's Article in the INTERNATIONAL SOCIALIST REVIEW

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The July/August issue of the International Socialist Review has an article by Phil Gasper criticizing my argument for Darwinian conservati...
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Sunday, July 29, 2007

Political Judgment in Darwinian Political Science

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A Darwinian political science would have to move through three levels of political history. The first level would be the natural history of...
Friday, July 27, 2007

The Pope on Theistic Evolution

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Many times on this blog, I have argued that there is no necessary conflict between Darwinian evolution and biblical religion, because Darwin...
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Wednesday, July 25, 2007

Behe's Intelligent Design as Intellectual Retreat

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The August 16th issue of The New York Review of Books has a review of Philip Kitcher's Living with Darwin by H. Allen Orr. Unfortunat...
Tuesday, July 24, 2007

Bonobos--The Politically Correct Primate

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Although bonobos resemble chimpanzees, bonobos are now considered a separate species. They have passed into popular culture as the "hi...
Thursday, July 12, 2007

Wilson vs. Dawkins on Religion

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Richard Dawkins's book The God Delusion has become a best-seller. This book reinforces the popular prejudice that Darwinism must denig...
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Wednesday, July 11, 2007

A Response to Jonathan Wells

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Jonathan Wells works for the Discovery Institute promoting "intelligent design theory." In his book Icons of Evolution , he shrew...
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Tuesday, July 10, 2007

Frederick Kagan on the Failure in Iraq

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Frederick Kagan is one of the leading neoconservative proponents of the American war in Iraq who helped the White House formulate the curren...
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Sunday, July 08, 2007

Leon Kass and the Science of Color

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This continues my previous post on Leon Kass's recent article in Commentary and the response from Steven Pinker. As I have indicated, I...
Friday, July 06, 2007

Leon Kass on Science and Religion

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Leon Kass has written an article for Commentary (April 2007)on "Science, Religion, and the Human Future." Steven Pinker and othe...
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Tuesday, July 03, 2007

The Darwinian Nature of Patriotism

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Howard Zinn--best known as the author of The People's History of the United States --is one of the leading writers for the American Left...
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Sunday, July 01, 2007

Peter Turchin's WAR AND PEACE AND WAR

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In Darwin's Cathedral , David Sloan Wilson developed an evolutionary theory of religion as a product of cultural group selection. Religi...
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Saturday, June 30, 2007

Dawkins and Miller Review Behe's Book

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The latest reviews of Michael Behe's new book, The Edge of Evolution , are by Kenneth Miller, in Nature (June 28), and Richard Dawkins,...
Wednesday, June 27, 2007

Evolution of the Soul in the Brain

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This week's "Science Times" section of the New York Times (June 26) is devoted entirely to the subject of evolution. The vari...
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Tuesday, June 26, 2007

Paper at APSA Convention, Sept. 1

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The American Political Science Association will be meeting in Chicago for its 2007 convention from August 30 to September 2. On Saturday, S...
Friday, June 22, 2007

David Sloan Wilson's EVOLUTION FOR EVERYONE

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David Sloan Wilson's new book is a gem. Evolution for Everyone: How Darwin's Theory Can Change the Way We Think About Our Lives is ...
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Sunday, June 17, 2007

Gnosticism and Existentialist Conservatism

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Opposition to Darwinian explanations of human nature is rooted primarily in the idea of the "transcendental self"--the idea that h...
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Friday, June 15, 2007

The Failure of Utopian Idealism in the Gaza Strip

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The triumph of Hamas in the Gaza Strip is a reminder of the dangerous consequences of the Wilsonian idealism in the Bush Administration'...
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Tuesday, June 12, 2007

Coyne's Review of Behe

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Jerry Coyne, an evolutionary biologist at the University of Chicago, has written a review of Michael Behe's new book for The New Republi...
Monday, June 11, 2007

Slavery, Southern Conservatism, and Darwinian Natural Right

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"Slavery is a conservative institution." "Human slavery is bad ground for conservatives to make a stand upon." The firs...