Reaping the Wokewind

When Materialism Turns on Its Own

“For they have sown the wind, and they shall reap the whirlwind.” —Hosea 8:7

These are dark days. Ideological campaigns against sanity deny everything from the objectivity of arithmetic and the binary of male and female to, more recently, the moral truth that promoting genocide of the Jews is unambiguously evil.

But there is a small silver lining in this dark cloud.

First, some background. A cadre of atheist scientists, including cosmologist Lawrence Krauss and evolutionary biologist Jerry Coyne, have long worked to silence and deplatform scientists who hold to the theory of intelligent design (ID), the view that some things in nature are best explained as resulting from a...