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Run, Peter Singer, Run

By Dinesh D'Souza (Dec 15, 2008)

I never knew Peter Singer could run so fast. The controversial bioethicist is originally from Australia, and I hear that they breed some good sprinters over there. Still,... more

When Science Points To God

By Dinesh D'Souza (Nov 24, 2008)

Contemporary atheism marches behind the banner of science. It is perhaps no surprise that several leading atheists—from biologist Richard Dawkins to cognitive psychologist... more

Why Bill Maher Made Me Laugh

By Dinesh D'Souza (Oct 13, 2008)

Bill Maher is a very irritating fellow. Now surely he would say that he irritates people because he is so iconoclastic, shattering entrenched orthodoxies with his rapier... more

David Mamet Leaves the Brain Dead Left

By Dinesh D'Souza (Oct 06, 2008)

The presidential contest is not simply an election about who rules America; it is also an election about which set of principles defines American politics. For the past two... more

Obama and the Reagan Doctrine

By Dinesh D'Souza (Sep 29, 2008)

In his debate with John McCain, Barack Obama's attempted to portray the Bush administration as a complete failure both in domestic and foreign policy. This argument,... more

George Obama, Start Packing

By Dinesh D'Souza (Sep 22, 2008)

So isn't it interesting that we keep hearing about Sarah Palin's peccadilloes while the major media continues to ignore the George Obama scandal? Here is a guy living in... more

Who Speaks For Islam

By Dinesh D'Souza (Sep 15, 2008)

Who Speaks for Islam, written by John Esposito and Dalia Mogahed, is one of the most important books on the War on Terror. In the seven years since 9/11, we have been... more

Help Obama's Half-Brother Move Out of His Hut

By Dinesh D'Souza (Sep 08, 2008)

The biggest scandal of the election campaign is going unreported, for the most part, by the mainstream newspapers and TV shows. Imagine if John McCain or Sarah Palin had a... more

Obama And The End Of Racism

By Dinesh D'Souza (Sep 01, 2008)

Who could not be moved at the sight of a major political party naming Barack Obama, an African American, as its presidential candidate? To me, there could not be a better... more

White Men Can't Run

By Dinesh D'Souza (Aug 28, 2008)

I've been watching with patriotic interest the Olympic track and field events. And I notice something about the results that is both remarkable and fascinating. Even so, this... more

The Prophet At Harvard

By Dinesh D'Souza (Aug 18, 2008)

When we think of the collapse of the Soviet Union, several names come to mind: Gorbachev, Reagan, Pope John Paul II, Lech Walesa, Margaret Thatcher, Vaclav Havel. But one... more

Sigmund Freud's Illusions

By Dinesh D'Souza (Aug 08, 2008)

Sigmund Freud is no longer the revered figure he once was. A recent article in the Chronicle of Higher Education noted that Freud is no longer routinely assigned even in... more

Countering Richard Dawkins on Al-Jazeera

By Dinesh D'Souza (Jul 28, 2008)

To listen to Richard Dawkins, or read his book The God Delusion, you would get the idea that belief in God is a dangerous delusion, even a kind of virus of the mind. ... more

An Absentee God?

By Dinesh D'Souza (Jul 21, 2008)

In my debate with atheist Christopher Hitchens in New York last October he raised a point that I did not know how to answer. So I employed an old debating strategy: I ignored... more

Frankenstein Endorses Obama

By Dinesh D'Souza (Jul 09, 2008)

Frankenstein's back, with a resounding endorsement of Barack Obama. I refer, of course, to the reemergence in public of former Clinton Secretary of State Madeleine... more

Michelle Obama's Inferiority Complex

By Dinesh D'Souza (Jun 30, 2008)

Now that Barack Obama has pretty much wrapped up the nomination, it's time to raise a question that lots of people have been talking about privately but not publicly. Is it... more

Gay Rights vs. Democracy

By Dinesh D'Souza (May 19, 2008)

It is the essence of democracy that people should be able to decide the moral rules that govern the nature of a community. If people don't have that power, then they are... more

Atheism and Child Murder

By Dinesh D'Souza (May 12, 2008)

Peter Singer is a calm, lucid and able debater, and our debate at Biola University in Los Angeles on April 25 was lively and hard-fought. Not for nothing is Singer considered... more

Obama - A Candidate in Shadows

By Dinesh D'Souza (May 05, 2008)

Throughout his campaign Barack Obama has mocked his critics, noting that they just don't get what a novel figure and consistent unifier he has been for his whole life. "They... more

What Muslims Really Think

By Dinesh D'Souza (Apr 28, 2008)

While on the debating circuit pounding atheists--a pastime I am really getting to enjoy--I have just started reading Dalia Mogahed and John Esposito's Who Speaks for Islam:... more

Ben Stein Exposes Richard Dawkins

By Dinesh D'Souza (Apr 21, 2008)

In Ben Stein's new film "Expelled," there is a great scene where Richard Dawkins is going on about how evolution explains everything. This is part of Dawkins' grand claim,... more

Atheism Masquerading As Science

By Dinesh D'Souza (Apr 14, 2008)

The problem with evolution is not that it is unscientific but that it is routinely taught in textbooks and in the classroom in an atheist way. Textbooks frequently go beyond... more

The Failure of "Intelligent Design"

By Dinesh D'Souza (Apr 07, 2008)

As a Christian, I believe that the universe and its living creatures are the products of intelligent design. This belief is not merely derived from theology but is also... more

Ten Truths About The Election

By Dinesh D'Souza (Mar 31, 2008)

1. Obama's connection with the Reverend Jeremiah Wright makes him unelectable in the general election, even though neither he nor most of the pundits seem to have recognized... more

Obama's Imperilled Candidacy

By Dinesh D'Souza (Mar 25, 2008)

Ironic, isn't it? Some conservatives have been calling for an inquiry into Barack Hussein Obama's Muslim connection--didn't he attend a madrassa in Indonesia?--when the... more

Is Ferraro Right About Obama?

By Dinesh D'Souza (Mar 17, 2008)

The columnist Michael Kinsley once defined a "gaffe" as an occasion when a politician accidentally tells the truth. In our age of political correctness, some would place... more

Obama's No Ronald Reagan

By Dinesh D'Souza (Mar 10, 2008)

On Hannity & Colmes recently, conservative pundit Oliver North sought to portray Barack Obama as an "empty suit," at which point Democratic political strategist Bob Beckel... more

Unforgettable William F. Buckley

By Dinesh D'Souza (Mar 03, 2008)

William F. Buckley, Jr. is dead, and modern American conservatism has lost its chief intellectual spokesman and leader. Buckley is one of the main reasons that I became a... more

Sex Scandal At The New York Times

By Dinesh D'Souza (Feb 25, 2008)

Imagine reading an article that began like this: "The New York Times has been rocked by reports that its coverage of the 2008 election has been sorely compromised by an... more

Anglican Archbishop Embraces Sharia Law

By Dinesh D'Souza (Feb 18, 2008)

Atheists can break out the champagne: there really are some wacky religious people out there. One of them seems to be Rowan Williams, the archbishop of Canterbury,. In a... more

A Rabbi Who Talks With Jesus

By Dinesh D'Souza (Feb 11, 2008)

Pope Benedict has a favorite rabbi, none other than the distinguished Jewish scholar Jacob Neusner. At first glance this is a puzzle. Many years ago Neusner wrote a book... more

The McCain Surge

By Dinesh D'Souza (Feb 04, 2008)

Remember when John McCain was proclaimed politically dead? The pundits on the left--and even a few on the right--declared that McCain had sunk his promising candidacy by... more

Actually Bush Didn't Lie

By Dinesh D'Souza (Jan 28, 2008)

Two leftist organizations have released a study that claims that the Bush administration lied about Iraq. Somehow I think we've heard that one before. Well, the two... more

Desecrating Darwin's Cathedral

By Dinesh D'Souza (Jan 21, 2008)

If you haven’t yet seen my Cal Tech debate with atheist Michael Shermer—a debate held December 9 before an audience of more than a thousand—you can watch it at... more

How Christians Ended Slavery

By Dinesh D'Souza (Jan 14, 2008)

Isn't it remarkable that atheists, who did virtually nothing to oppose slavery, condemn Christians, who are the ones who abolished it? Consider atheist Sam Harris, who... more

Are Atheists Cultural Christians

By Dinesh D'Souza (Jan 06, 2008)

Asked by a British member of Parliament if he is one of those atheists who wants to get rid of Christian symbols especially during the Christmas season, atheist Richard... more

Why the Left Hates Democracy

By Dinesh D'Souza (Jan 02, 2008)

Commenting on Benazir Bhutto’s assassination, I recently commented that there are three groups that oppose democracy in the Muslim world: the secular dictators like... more