Iranians Need American Support, Not American Silence
And a tsunami of new sanctions.
January 4, 2018
A Muddled Attempt to Revive the Controversy between Science and Religion
The medieval church helped science more than it repressed it.
Since the 1970s, historians have come to agree that the notion of an inherent conflict between science and religion—a notion dating back at least to the trial of Galileo—is a myth. The historian Yves Gingras, in his book Science and Religion: An Impossible Dialogue, seeks to overthrow this consensus. But, to Peter Harrison, the consensus is right, and Gingras’s argument is unconvincing:
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Why Keeping Jerusalem United Required a New Law
A matter of security as well as principle.
Two Books Describe the Search for Family History in Poland
Righteous Gentile or victim of Jewish guile?
A Muddled Attempt to Revive the Controversy between Science and Religion
The medieval church helped science more than it repressed it.
An Austrian Jewish Soldier’s World War I Diary
“God! When will you put an end to this miserable life?”