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‘Magical Thinking?’ Tu Quoque, David Remnick

New Yorker editor David Remnick says Obama needs to make dealing with global warming his priority of the second term: But Obama must now defeat an especially virulent form of magical thinking, entrenc... read more

Atheist Memes We Need To Throw In the Trash

Isn’t magical thinking adorable? The development of modern scientific inquiry took place in a certain historical and cultural context. I keep saying that it’s not like we discovered the scientific met... read more

About Last Night

Today’s Wall Street Journal column is devoted in its entirety to my review of the new stage version of Joan Didion’s The Year of Magical Thinking. I hated it ... Why on earth did David Hare, the stage ... read more

Here’s what real science says about the role of CO2 as Earth’s preeminent climatic thermostat

Whenever I post something here at ImaGeo involving climate change, it’s a good bet that I’ll get a spectrum of critical responses in the comments section. These range from skepticism about the urgency ... read more

Water in California: Too Scarce, or Just Underpriced?

You may have heard—and if you don't live out here you may not have cared—that "California has just one year of water left." Alex Tabarrok at Marginal Revolution blog has a good roundup on why people t... read more

A Sad Serendipity

A sad serendipity is a paradox, but I’m not quite sure how to describe what just happened here in the Starbucks, where I work on the mornings I take my son to Baton Rouge for his classical tutorial. A ... read more

Don’t Vote for Atheists—They Like to Kill People! (2 of 2)

Others respond with elaborate forms of the tu quoque fallacy: Christians have done it too. Well, so we have, but we have also not done it which puts us well ahead of anti-theists in the use of power. ... read more

Queen is a religious entity following its religion

Linda Burgess complains that, under the direction of the diocese, Queen of the Valley Medical Center, a Catholic hospital, is now tightening its rules on tubal ligations, in accordance with Catholic t... read more

How to treat conservative delusion?

Perhaps the only difference is that this way of thinking is chosen, whereas full insanity appears to be more involuntary. Along with this pattern, is an aversion to comparing different abstract groupi... read more

How to Help Fast-Food Workers

This week, fast-food workers have engaged in 24-hour strikes throughout America to bring attention to their struggle to make ends meet. They have been demanding an increase in the minimum wage from $7 ... read more

Stephen Hawking Settles the God Question Once and For All

Stephen Hawking has a new book coming out (The Grand Design, with Leonard Mlodinow). Among other things, he points out that modern physics has progressed to the point where we don’t need to invoke God ... read more

Israel Demands Me to Log On or Be Labeled a Terrorist

My participation in an interfaith delegation trip to Palestine and Israel was blocked by Israeli officials who detained, interrogated and then expelled me because they deemed me to be "a security risk ... read more