The tone of Reza Aslan’s new television series Believer is a curious mixture of snobbishness and inclusivity. In it, the author and religious scholar immerses himself in some of the more markedly idiosyncratic religious faiths of the... Read More

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Taxonomists have described more than a million species ... divided into more than twenty phyla. Of this plethora, vertebrates represent only part of one phylum, and a mere 40,000 species or so. —Stephen Jay Gould... Read More

BOOK BY MARK O'CONNELL DOUBLEDAY, 2017 256 PP.; $26.95 To Be a Machine by versatile literary journalist Mark O’Connell is a travelogue about the author’s experiences among the “transhumanists,” i.e., those who believe that immortality... Read More

BOOK BY MATTHEW PARKER THOMAS DUNNE BOOKS/ST. MARTIN'S PRESS, 2017 304 PP.; $26.99 Were North America's original thirteen British colonies the first ones relinquished by their mighty mother country? Most Americans probably smugly believe that’s... Read More

BOOK BY RANDALL FULLER VIKING, 2017 302 PP.; $27.00 The Book That Changed America by Randall Fuller gives a well-researched and well-written account on the effect Charles Darwin’s views had on the course of American... Read More

Since I started writing film reviews, I’ve done three on movies that could properly be labeled as “right-wing,” either in a religious or political sense: God’s Not Dead 2, Hillary’s America: The Secret History of the... Read More