Review: The Last Testament
The Last Testament: A Memoir by God (with David Javerbaum), Simon and Schuster, New York, 383 pages God is a happily married divinity. He and his wife, Ruth (yes, she of the Book) have three children,...
View Article“The Prophet Muhammad” did not exist
Muhammad the Prophet of Islam is fictitious. In his new book Did Muhammad Exist? An Inquiry into Islam’s Obscure Origins, Robert Spencer demonstrates, with an impressive mass of detailed evidence and...
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Edward Snowden: loyal to the people of America
These are extracts from a Washington Times report of an interview it had in Moscow with Edward Snowden, the man who “betrayed” the secrets of the National Security Agency (NSA): Snowden is an orderly...
View ArticleSpiritual adventures: aesthetical, ethical, and pharmaceutical
Sam Harris is an atheist. We like a lot of what he writes and says. Just recently one of our readers sent us this statement of his, which we acknowledge, sadly, to be most probably true: For the rest...
View ArticleThe terrifying army of the black flag
A review of a book on ISIS at Commentary, by Michael J. Totten, is full of interest. It explains some of the Byzantine intricacies of Arab, middle eastern, and Islamic politics. The book is titled...
View ArticleThe case against God
Prometheus Books has reissued George H. Smith’s book Atheism: The Case Against God, first published in 1979. The new edition has a foreword by the atheist physicist Lawrence M. Krauss. Smith...
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Islam victorious?
It is a common belief among conservatives that the democracies of the West are proof against attack by hostile ideologies; cannot be damaged, let alone destroyed by them, because they can absorb them...
View Article“God” remains superfluous
Today we add a new book review to our Pages list. We also post it here. * Confessions of a Born-Again Pagan by Anthony T. Kronman, Yale University Press, New Haven & London, 2016, 1161 pages....
View ArticleEnlightenment, atheism, reason, and the humanist Left
This is a kind of review. But it is more of an argument about ideas that vitally affect the real world. I am in emphatic agreement with roughly half of what Professor Steven Pinker says in his new book...
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Review: Nova Roma: De Itinere in Occasum
We usually only review books about religion and contemporary politics, but we made an exception for NOVA ROMA* for three reasons: first, we happen to know that the author, Anderson Gentry, is an...
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