Antisemitism is never funny, but the reaction of the left-leaning Guardian newspaper to racism by the left is quite amusing. Yesterday, var...

There is a brutal culture war in British education. On the left are the educational establishment wedded to outdated dogmas about child-cen...

Last year saw two new biographies about Galileo by the heavy-hitting professors David Wooton and John Heilbron. I briefly mentioned them in...

T hose with lo ng memories will rec all Richard Carrier's post back in January 2010 with the provocative title 'Flynn's Pile of ...

For your perusal: Keith Parsons, "No Creator Need Apply: A Reply to Roy Abraham Varghese" . Paul Herrick, "Job Opening: Creat...

A nyone who follows the various historical debates over the Enlightenment will be aware of Jonathan Israel’s hulking 2 volumes, ‘ Radical E...

My family had a wonderful two week holiday in Tunisia a little over two years ago. We stayed in the town of Hammamet which has now suffered...

A little while ago, I did a short review of The Plan , a programme of political reform espoused by my good friend Daniel Hannan and Douglas ...

In these deeply depressing times of austerity and economic distress I thought we could do with some cheering up. So here is Matt Ridley - D...

Over at Butterflies and Wheels , there is a review and discussion of Thomas Dixon’s book Science and Religion: A Very Short Introduction. T...