Defining Diego is the story of one Guatemalan adoptee and his mother, a reporter who documented their journey from his earliest steps, as they try to understand how international adoption boomed and busted, and what it all means for families like theirs, with feet in two worlds. When Laurie Stern set out to adopt a baby from Guatemala in 1999, she thought the process would be pretty straightforward. Lots of people were doing it. But the adoption was held up just as she went to Guatemala to g ...
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New Atheism and the Alt-Right
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In this one-off episode, I take a look at whether the Alt-right are the unintended offspring of the New Atheism movement that emerged online in the early days of Web 2.0. I argue that Web 2.0 created a unique environment where both atheists and the religious felt both emboldened and victimized leading to some very uncivil discourse. In the course of this battle, prominent New Atheists like Richard Dawkins celebrated a style of ‘naive empiricism’ where anything theoretical was seen as suspicious due to its status as theory and only facts were credible. Though Dawkins knew better than to call evolution a fact, he did so for political purposes and this led to a group of mainly young men overvaluing empirical factual content with a lack of understanding how theoretical understandings of phenomena balance, check and support that empirical content. Hence, ‘naive empiricism’.
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In this one-off episode, I take a look at whether the Alt-right are the unintended offspring of the New Atheism movement that emerged online in the early days of Web 2.0. I argue that Web 2.0 created a unique environment where both atheists and the religious felt both emboldened and victimized leading to some very uncivil discourse. In the course of this battle, prominent New Atheists like Richard Dawkins celebrated a style of ‘naive empiricism’ where anything theoretical was seen as suspicious due to its status as theory and only facts were credible. Though Dawkins knew better than to call evolution a fact, he did so for political purposes and this led to a group of mainly young men overvaluing empirical factual content with a lack of understanding how theoretical understandings of phenomena balance, check and support that empirical content. Hence, ‘naive empiricism’.
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