The Borders of Things

Overtime

Why, Pittsburgh? Why? I'm supposed to be relaxing during a football game.

On a more academic note, British intellectual about town Terry Eagleton gives a surprising critique of Richard Dawkins's book The God Delusion. This is exactly the kind of thinking needed by the theologically minded and secular alike, particularly when religious beliefs of all kind continue to be an active force in shaping the world. One can be rigorous and demanding of religious ideas without slipping into either wishy-washy relativism or total dismissal. Eagleton here gives voice to a growing reassessment of the possibilities of religious thought among intellectuals, including (among the more notable) Badiou and Zizek.