2018 Censor of the Year

Reflecting on the weight of history, William Faulkner lamented.
The past is never dead. It isn’t even past.
The centuries old relationship of science to philosophy and to religion is as tangled and contested as a Shakespearean melodrama. A history of mythic battles, real and imagined, looms over the contemporary conversation, making partisans of every stripe defensive.
In the interest of clarifying the issues, some history …