Before the election, I said that journalists should cover Trump in "excruciating detail." Now everyone's doing it, and it makes me want to climb under a rock.Read This
Fellow journalists: If Trump’s elected, drop everything
A Trump administration will not be kind to journalists—or to the rule of law. The only thing for it is to document the next four years in excruciating detail, to give as much material as possible to the forces of democracy by shining a light on the forces of Trumpism. The Donald is an extraordinary candidate, and he demands an extraordinary response: not the mountains of free advertising showered on him by the cable news shows, but ruthless examination. Read This
Three Easy Pieces: Coming to Terms With C. S. Lewis
When I first encountered C. S. Lewis, I dismissed him as a mere apologist and banished most of his books from my reading lists. But after an unexpected introduction to another side of his writings, I found that I could be friends with Clive. Here's where an atheist can agree with the 20th century's most influential Christian apologist.Read This
French sect announces support for state ban on ‘ostentatious’ swimwear
NICE, France—The leaders of the Nice chapter of the Disciples of Secularis say that the burkini, swimwear designed to satisfy Islamic modesty standards, threatens the natural secular order instituted by the god Secularis when he created the universe through a combination of blind chance and evolutionary processes. Grand Secular Jean-Jacques Russo spoke at a press […]Read This
The Divine Metaphor
Eight weeks ago, I fell for a woman in my hometown with whom I have religious differences. She’s a Christian with an evangelical background. I’m an agnostic atheist [1] with a history of aggressive anti-theism. We’ve spent weeks going back and forth about the wisdom of interfaith relationships, now trying to parse this verse or […]Read This
The Faith of an Infidel [5]: The Council of Salzburg
Part of an ongoing series on religion and philosophy. Read Part 4 or view all the posts. Sometimes life seems like the set-up to a bad joke. Last week in Salzburg, at the end of Ramadan, I ate an enormous meal prepared by a professional Syrian chef now living in a refugee camp on the […]Read This
The Faith of an Infidel [4]: It is not good that the man should be alone
Part of an ongoing series on religion and philosophy. Read Part 3 or view all the posts. When I made it to Mariazell I felt … pretty much the same. On the sixth and final day of “Walker goes to Mariazell,” I walked from St. Aegyd am Neuwalde back up into the mountains, past Hubertussee […]Read This
The Faith of an Infidel [3]: On the Way
Part of an ongoing series about religion and philosophy. Read Part 2 or view all the posts. As I write I can look out my hotel window on the mountains to the south of Rohr im Gebirge, a tiny hamlet of 500 people, one hotel, and seemingly no restaurants, nestled in the alpine foothills of […]Read This
Solipsists Anonymous [1]
Welcome to Solipsists Anonymous. Let’s go around the room and introduce myself.
The Faith of an Infidel [2]: God has a sense of humor and other hypotheses
Part of an ongoing series about religion and philosophy. Read Part 1 or view all the posts. My first appointment on my arrival in Vienna was breakfast with a Catholic mother (whom I will call “Jess”) and her two-and-a-half-year-old son. Jess was born in Croatia when it was a part of the Socialist Federal Republic […]Read This