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.
A review of Richard Leakey’s The Origin of Humankind — the fossil record, contested discoveries, the Turkana Boy, and why bones tell the story DNA alone cannot.
Every serious inquiry into biology eventually arrives at the same wall. You can trace the…
In 1978, E.O. Wilson published On Human Nature. Father Stanley Jaki published The Road of Science and the Ways to God. Same year. Opposite conclusions. Cold Spring Harbor watched it happen.
A review of E.O. Wilson’s Consilience — the grand unification project that makes no sense without understanding what happened to Wilson in 1975.
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.