The Meme Machine by Susan Blackmore — Where Dawkins Left Off, Blackmore Dares to Go Further
Dawkins handed us the word. Blackmore handed us the theory. That distinction matters more than…
Unweaving the Rainbow by Richard Dawkins — Science as the Deepest Kind of Poetry
Keats was drunk when he said it. December 1817, at the painter Benjamin Haydon’s London…
The Blind Watchmaker by Richard Dawkins — A Review
A review of Richard Dawkins’ The Blind Watchmaker — the book that explains why complexity needs no designer and what that actually costs you to believe.
Virus of the Mind by Richard Brodie — When the Student Takes the Teacher’s Idea Further Than the Teacher Intended
Richard Brodie’s Virus of the Mind pushes Dawkins’ meme concept into uncomfortable territory — advertising, cults, religion, and the covert architecture of belief. A review.
The Debate Stephen Jay Gould Started With a Word: How ‘NOMA’ Enraged Both Richard Dawkins and Cardinal Schönborn and Created the Most Unusual Three-Way Fight in Science-Religion History
Stephen Jay Gould proposed a truce between science and religion in 1997. Both Richard Dawkins and Cardinal Schönborn rejected it. The fallout reshaped modern intellectual history.
Darwin’s Dangerous Idea by Daniel Dennett — The Book That Finished What Nietzsche and Dawkins Started
Daniel Dennett died on April 19, 2024, at the age of eighty-two, from complications of…
