In America, racism is worse than homophobia
Conservative writer Kevin Williamson accused Democratic presidential candidate Bernie Sanders of ‘leading a nationalist-socialist movement’ a la Ado...
Tag: Politics
Walker and creationism, ctd.
David Bruggeman has a sharp comment on my last post you should check out. For now I’d like to respond to this: Now, if a politician is a creationist, I wa...
First Bouie, now McArdle
Megan McArdle becomes the second prominent journalist to agree with me and argue that it doesn’t matter if Scott Walker believes in evolution: I’m g...
Should Scott Walker go on offense about evolution?
Byron York wants Scott Walker and other Republicans to downplay evolution: Which means that a candidate should be able to say some version of the following when...
Jamelle Bouie is two for two
For the second time in a row Jamelle Bouie makes keen insights about science in society. But also for the second time in a row, he unnecessarily uses the sloppy...
We want our leaders to be like us
(So the combined 14 readers of my last blog and this one have probably inferred my two main policies. First, I don’t like to write about topics that most ...
Quote for the day
Dan Sarewitz in ‘Lies We Must Live With’: As is so often the case when we frame a problem as bimodal, however, we get the problem itself wrong. The ...
Jamelle Bouie on ‘anti-science beliefs’
Jamelle Bouie thoughtfully critiques partisans’ tendency to drape their beliefs in science (emphasis added): In the quest for partisan advantage, everyon...
There’s more to life than voting
To finally respond to the substance of Dan’s comment, here he is asking how voters should think about politicians who believe in creationism: If my congre...