JR Daeschner

Author of TRUE BRITS, EUROTRIPPING, and
THE HISTORY OF SEX (But Not As We Know It)

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Larry Flynt Was My Fleece (or How a Book about Sex Turned Me Into a Christian)

by JR Daeschner In the end, it was the lies that got to me. I was in Pompeii, you see, researching what I hoped would be my next bi...
A Million Little Votes

by JR Daeschner With each US election, the question among Christians sounds ever-more desperate: 'Who will you vote for?' And ...
The Anti-Dawkins: Are We Hardwired to be 'Selfish' or 'Social'? (Part 2 of 3)

In contrast to Darwin's modern champions (most of whom are men), Roughgarden comes across as refreshingly humble and, well, genial, in p...
One for the Calendar

As holidays go, trying to add National Humiliation Day to the calendar would be a tough sell, wouldn't it? But for followers of Christ...
The Anti-Dawkins: Are We Hardwired to be 'Selfish' or 'Social'? (Part 1 of 3)

Everybody knows that men compete for sex, while women hanker after 'alpha males,' right? Well, at least one biologist argues that ...
The Anti-Dawkins: Are We Hardwired to be 'Selfish' or 'Social'? (Part 3 of 3)

But Roughgarden's not alone in her critiques. In The Genial Gene , she cites a Japanese study that casts doubt on 'the ultimate po...
My bit for Obama-mania

Here's the article wot I wrote for Obama's inauguration. Forget Dreams From My Father: Frederick Douglass' autobiography should ...