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| Brendan O’Neill
Burying Malthus to save Malthusianism
The so-called ‘progressive greens’ challenging the idea that the planet is overpopulated are actually only interested in making Malthusian thinking more palatable and PC.
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| Friday 26 March 2010 |
John Gillott
The party poopers at Darwin’s 200th birthday
Following mainstream scientists’ celebration of Darwin’s big birthday last year, two new books argue that Darwin’s theory is not all it’s cracked up to be. Are they on to anything?
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| Friday 26 March 2010 |
Massimo Piattelli-Palmarini
It is now blasphemy to criticise Darwin
Massimo Piattelli-Palmarini, co-author of What Darwin Got Wrong (reviewed in this issue of the spiked review of books), says Darwinism has become a new secular faith that you transgress at your peril.
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| Friday 26 March 2010 |
Angus Kennedy
What is the point of evil?
If Terry Eagleton is right that evil is literally, supremely pointless, and also reassuringly rare in a world full of human purpose, then why are we discovering it everywhere we look?
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| Friday 26 March 2010 |
Charlotte Faircloth
The trials and tribulations of the ‘perfect mother’
The controversial French philosopher Elisabeth Badinter has stirred up a storm with her critique of the Anglo-American eco-mums whose values are now invading France.
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| Friday 26 March 2010 |
Rob Lyons
Don’t bring back the Ministry of Food
Jane Fearnley-Whittingstall (yes, Hugh’s mum) has written an interesting history of food rationing during the Second World War. But bizarrely, she is nostalgic for that period.
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| Friday 26 March 2010 |
Tim Black
Whatever happened to citius, altius, fortius?
A fascinating new collection of essays examines how the commercialisation and politicisation of the Olympic Games have made them less and less about ‘swifter, higher, stronger’.
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| Friday 26 March 2010 |
Nathalie Rothschild
A novel approach to the New Atheism
Maybe human beings are fundamentally irrational – why else did I read Rebecca Goldstein's clunky, academic, atheistic novel 36 Arguments for the Existence of God from cover to cover?
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| Friday 26 March 2010 |
Daniel Lee
In search of the meaning behind Oz
A biography of The Wonderful Wizard of Oz author, L Frank Baum, speculates about the weird and wonderful characters in the children’s classic, and why Baum was a one-hit wonder.
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| Friday 26 March 2010 |
James Heartfield
The power of Solar
Novelist Ian McEwan is clearly not a climate-change sceptic, but as a writer he cannot resist showing up the humbug in the heavily ideological field of contemporary environmentalism.
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