Oh My God, Charlie Darwin
… Or, should I say, Richard Dawkins. Apparently, Richard Dawkins and Christopher Hitchens are consulting their lawyers to see whether the Pope can be charged when he visits Britain in September. Mr...
View ArticleThe Two Cultures Redux
On May 7, 1959, British physicist and novelist C.P. Snow delivered an influential Rede Lecture at Cambridge University. His lecture concerned the intellectual division between the sciences and the...
View ArticleVale Christopher Hitchens
I’m in the throes of exams right now, so I’ll direct you to Pavlov’s Cat’s short comment on Hitchens, which (rightly), I think, focusses on his most remarkable gift: the ability to make words sing.
View ArticleA Girl Named Sue (with apologies to Johnny Cash)
There’s nothing quite like getting up first thing in the morning to discover service documents sitting in your hallway (or, if you’re in Australia or the US, poking out of your mailbox). This is what...
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