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EVOLUTION
In recent years, the uneasy tension between science and faith has escalated into a full-out war of attrition.It began with the debates over teaching creationism and evolutionary theory in the early 1990s, and 9/11 further opened the door for accusations about the harm religion and fundamentalism can cause. The...
Pity Fox News, for they know not what they do. After a successful pilot in mid-February, Fox News launched its weekly news satire “The ½ Hour News Hour” this month. Witnessing the birth of the new show is like nothing more than observing the...
Radically modern new modes of thought flowered as well. Charles Darwin was quietly and carefully constructing the theory of evolution that he would introduce to the dumbstruck world a decade later. In American politics, abolitionism was just beginning to move from the left wing into the mainstream. Feminism officially launched...
Potato or poppy? For the chosen people, it’s been an age-old debate over their chosen food. And last night, Frankfurter Professor of Law Alan M. Dershowitz and Johnstone Family Professor of Psychology Steven Pinker evoked health, terrorism, and evolution to end the dispute between latkes and...