David Foster Wallace, a writer, professor and committed atheist, died on Sept 12, 2008. He was perhaps best known for his book about John McCain’s 2000 presidential campaign. Wallace was a thoroughgoing postmodernist — and thereby solidly possessed of the notion that there is no capital-T Truth. The Wall Street Journal published an essay upon…
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No Evidence for Faith?
Faith & Reason Ron Suskind, in an article in the NY Times Magazine during the Bush vs. Gore election, Without a Doubt, addressed the issue of the faith of George W. Bush, and began as follows: Bruce Bartlett, a domestic policy adviser to Ronald Reagan and a treasury official for the first President Bush, told…