Jake over at Pure Pedantry has a lost post titled Why Pairing Science and Atheism is High-Brow. It is a very nice little essay, and I enjoyed the historical perspective brought into the discussion by quotations from a John Dewey article from TNR of the 1920s. Anyway, there's nothing new, but the subtlety of exposition is worth a look.
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While it's hardly the most important thing going on in the world right now, we should take a moment to note the effective demise of The New Republic. There was a time when TNR was one of the best liberal journals of opinion to be found.
Steven Pinker has responded to Lakoff's reply in TNR.
Steven Pinker explores The Genealogy Craze in America in TNR.
Seems like both the Republican nominee and the likely Democratic nominee entertain the autism and vaccination "hypothesis".