Physicist at Large

A while ago I blogged about the following comment by Cathy Young : This is starting to remind me of how every Soviet essay on art or liter...

Hyers doesn't shy away from the fact that the first two chapters of Genesis contradict each other, if read literally. This is a point th...

Nearly a quarter of a century ago I read a book called The Meaning of Creation: Genesis and Modern Science , by theology professor Conrad Hy...

I tried to read Plutarch, but his accounts of ancient generals mostly didn't do it for me. I skimmed more and more, even when reading ab...

I wrote an essay that I felt deserved better circulation than this site gets, so I posted it at Medium.com . It's about the movie The Fa...

I have an opinion piece on the problems with land acknowledgments (opening a presentation by acknowledging that the event is happening on l...

I just finished reading about Numa Pompilius, an early King of Rome.  He was supposedly a reluctant ruler, more interested in prayer and con...