What is intelligence? by James R. Flynn
February 14, 2025‘The Flynn Effect’ was the phrase Richard J. Herrnstein and Charles Murray coined in their book...
Crossing Styx
February 13, 2025What happens to children is that they usually pass from believing that everything presented by television...
Notes from Italy: Romulus and Neighbors
February 13, 2025The next time you go to Rome, take a half-day to go to Pomezia, just south...
Almost a Miracle by John Ferling
February 12, 2025As contemplated by Ferling, few, if any, colonial Americans escaped the impact of hostilities. Wars were...
Images from How To Photograph an Atomic Bomb
February 12, 2025Between 1945 and 1962, the United States conducted over 300 atmospheric nuclear tests above the ground,...
Hanna Rosin Discusses God’s Harvard
February 10, 2025"Tensions often arise between secular teachings and Biblical beliefs. Many students are reading, say Kant and...
The Greatest Battle: Stalin, Hitler, and the Desperate Struggle for Moscow That Changed the Course of World War II by Andrew Nagorski
February 10, 2025He focuses on the assault on Moscow, the largest battle in history between two opposing armies....
I’ll Sleep When I’m Dead: The Dirty Life and Times of Warren Zevon by Crystal Zevon
February 10, 2025I’ll Sleep When I’m Dead is sort of an extended wake for its subject. There’s very...
Michael Behe on The Edge of Evolution
February 10, 2025"I conclude that Darwinian processes account for little of the machinery of life, and that most...
Proust and the Squid by Maryanne Wolf
February 9, 2025Reminding the reader that the likes of Thomas Edison, Leonardo da Vinci and Albert Einstein were...




