Travel

A few small insights from my recent visit to Sicily. Unlimited migration or immigration is not necessarily a delightful thing. In Palermo, sub-Saharan Africans were camped out next to people’s homes, and in public parks and public squares, cooking their food, washing, defecating, etc. Improvised tents. Quite a lot of this. Little hygiene, little or …

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This bit of correspondence was a reaction — in conversation with some friends — to an interview in the New York Times with a religiously inclined philosopher, Alvin Plantinga. The title of the interview is “Is Atheism Irrational?” What is my reaction to this interview? Well, I must confess: Personally I harbor an extreme — …

Read moreDoes God Exist and How Do People Use God?