Carl Coon
Carl Coon was former US Ambassador to Nepal and the author of Culture Wars and the Global Village; One Planet, One People: Beyond “Us versus Them;” and A Short History of Evolution. In 2013 he received the Lifetime Achievement Award from the American Humanist Association.
Posts by Carl Coon
Origin: A Novel
BY DAN BROWN ANCHOR, 2018 656 PP.; $9.99 Dan Brown has written a succession of enormously successful thrillers, including The Da Vinci Code and... Read More
A Crack in Creation: Gene Editing and the Unthinkable Power to Control Evolution
BOOK BY JENNIFER DOUDNA AND SAMUEL STERNBERG HOUGHTON MIFFLIN HARCOURT, 2017 304 PP.; $28.00 (HARDCOVER) $14.99 (KINDLE) CRISPR is the basis of a genome... Read More
How to Solve the Trust Problem? Introduce Your Humanism!
My Short History of Evolution, published by the American Humanist Association’s Humanist Press last year, included discussion of a singularly important milestone in the... Read More
What Has God Done for Me Lately?
I’m getting tired of this whole God business. I used to regard God with a sort of benevolent patience, like a successful author might... Read More
The Evolution of Everything and Ultrasociety
THE EVOLUTION OF EVERYTHING BOOK BY MATT RIDLEY HARPER, 2015 368 PP.; $28.99 ULTRASOCIETY BOOK BY PETER TURCHIN BERESTA BOOKS, 2015 272 PP.; $18.95... Read More
State of Shock in Nepal
My daughter Ellen and her husband arrived in Kathmandu March 4, 2015, on the Turkish Airline flight that skidded off the runway and cracked up on... Read More
Does Altruism Exist?
In nature, absent humans, you rarely find truly altruistic behavior, and when you do, there’s an explanation available that shows how that behavior arises... Read More