In an article in this past Sunday's New York Times Magazine, Robert F. Worth writes about the four days he…
A hard road for an atheist preacher
Richard Dawkins
The “New New Atheists”
Christopher R. Beha discusses a recent article he had written for Harper's Magazine in which he considers three publications, written…
Good news from the grand narrative
To be asked to contribute a commentary on Professor Robert Bellah’s magnum opus is a great honor and a privilege…
What should we now do differently?
No one reading this seven hundred page book can fail to be impressed with the sweep of its argument or…
Terry Eagleton, New Atheism, and the War on Terror
Last Wednesday evening, eminent theorist of literature and culture Terry Eagleton gave a talk at Columbia University entitled "The New…
Taking stock of the rage against God
At the Guardian's Comment is Free blog, Madeleine Bunting offers a stocktaking of the "God debate" since the publication of…
A religious history of American neuroscience
Not long ago, researchers wired up the atheist Richard Dawkins with a helmet that would create magnetic fields partially simulating…