Saudi Arabia Doesn’t Need a Nuclear Program
Nor should it get its own version of the Iran deal.
March 8, 2018
Steven Pinker Shortchanges Both the Enlightenment and Religion
A rationalist sermon delivered to a congregation of wavering souls.
In Enlightenment Now: The Case for Reason, Science, Humanism, and Progress, Steven Pinker offers an enthusiastic defense of rationalism, liberal democracy, and human progress against religion, superstition, socialism, and totalitarianism. To John Gray, Pinker’s understanding of the 18th-century movement is woefully inadequate, his attitude toward science quickly devolves into scientism (the belief that science can provide political and moral guidance), and his view of religion is reductionist in the extreme. Gray writes:
March 8, 2018
Why Guatemala’s Embassy Move Matters
A small country does the right thing.
Bipartisan Support for Israel Is Crumbling, and There’s Little AIPAC Can Do about It
A near-impossible problem.
Steven Pinker Shortchanges Both the Enlightenment and Religion
A rationalist sermon delivered to a congregation of wavering souls.
A New History of the Arab World Gets the Story Right—Until It Comes to Jews and Christians
An Oxford historian has absorbed anti-Semitic prejudices.