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Author Archives: Heather Mac Donald
James Wood is not *that* kind of non-believer
Literary critic James Wood has again announced to the world that he alone possesses the requisite sensitivity and depth to be a non-believer. In 2006, he castigated the so-called New Atheists for their shallow criticisms of faith while recounting at … Continue reading
Death panels and science
Conservative pundits of a religious bent periodically criticize Enlightenment rationalism and the scientific world-view as presumptuous, inadequate, or dangerous. (Leftist believers are hardly immune from science condescension. In his new book Reason, Faith, and Revolution, Terry Eagleton opines that the … Continue reading
Jesus: Invisible friend or evolutionary adaptation?
I had never heard of the “Third Man” phenomenon until reading this fascinating Wall Street Journal book review. People in extreme situations, such as explorers stranded on a mountain peak or shipwreck survivors, have reported the sensation of being accompanied … Continue reading
Hermaphrodites: divine incompetence?
God laid down rules for the use of human genitals and proscribed strict penalties for their misuse, the Bible and believers tell us. God also possesses total engineering mastery over what happens in a human uterus (see, inter alia, the … Continue reading
Rational rationing?
Much of the conservative critique of Obama’s rationing and alleged euthanasia intentions still seems to me to maintain a certain ambiguity about whether the critics think that Obama is planning to force the entire medical system—private and public—into rationing mode … Continue reading
Magical thinking watch: Bank discrimination
Twenty years ago, there were few bank branches and few residents with bank accounts on the Lower East Side of Manhattan. Poverty advocates and government officials predictably concluded that those nasty banks were discriminating against the poor and mandated that … Continue reading
He said it
Overheard on Christian talk station KBRT 740 am today: I’ve never come across a ministry where [the leaders] don’t all fly first class. And why are all these guys driving gold-plated Rolls Royces? Radio evangelist Bob Christopher on his fellow ministers. … Continue reading
Icons
My post on Mary’s visit to New York has drawn rebuke (here and here), and for good reason: its tone was clearly self-indulgent and insensitive. I apologize and thank Joe Carter and Tom Piatak for their civility in responding. But however … Continue reading
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Death panels
On the question of whether health care is a market commodity or a human right, conservatives tend to come out on the commodity side, when they address the issue at all. Not so in reacting to Obama’s tentative application of … Continue reading