What We Argue About When We Argue About Evolution

Among hot-button controversies of the day, Darwinian evolution may be unique in being a question on which people express forceful opinions all the time, at high levels of the media and politics, all under a protocol where it's the norm to have not even a basic idea what you're talking about.

So Wall Street Journal online columnist James Taranto tries to take to task author Jacob Weisberg for Weisberg's column on Slate that includes this derisive reference to Republicans in Congress:

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