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    Aquinas and the Big Bang

    / February 7, 2012 / Leave a comment
    Developments in contemporary science, especially evolutionary biology and cosmology, have been used to support a kind of “totalizing naturalism” according to which the universe and the processes within it need no explanation beyond the categories of the natural sciences themselves. Whether one speaks of self-organizing principles in living things or...
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    Imperial ‘Itch

    / December 22, 2011 / 4 Comments
    Christopher Hitchens was a big and impressive figure. And the sheer scale of the commentary after his death is a testament to one of his most attractive qualities: his capacity for close friendship, especially among his fellow writers and journalists, the gatekeepers of the public domain. But the mainly admiring...
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    Václav Havel: the compulsion of a dissident

    / December 20, 2011 / Leave a comment
    At one end of the scale there is Kim Jong-il, the model dictator, at the other Christopher Hitchens, model exponent of free expression. And somewhere in between this winter, sadly, is also the playwright, dissident and founding president of Czechoslovakia, Václav Havel. “Dissident” is a word from another era now....
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    Christopher Hitchens, 1949-2011

    / December 16, 2011 / Leave a comment
    Even with the living—let alone the dead—it can be difficult to recall a person fully and precisely in detail, to reassemble his or her presence. With the death of Christopher Hitchens, I am having the reverse difficulty. I cannot disassemble the detail to imagine the absence. Seventeen years ago, I...
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    Nick Clegg: hero of The Nation

    / April 28, 2010 / Leave a comment
    Has an entryist plot to take over Britain been hatched at the heart of America’s left-wing establishment? Perhaps so. The Nation is the US’s oldest continuously published weekly magazine, founded in 1865. But to the celebrated list of progressive scribes who have earned their spurs there—including Naomi Klein, Christopher Hitchens...
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    Diary

    / April 27, 2010 / Leave a comment
    A new $25m attraction opened in Tennessee on 9th April, which aims to give people an insight into what it was like to sail on the ill-fated Titanic BRITAIN Time to experience the joy of cabinet-making With election predictions ranging from outright victories, to Lib-Lab pacts, Lib-Con coalitions, and even...
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