Jim Holt

Jim Holt, a veteran New York journalist, is the author of Why Does the World Exist? (2012) and When Einstein Walked with Gödel (2018).

My alienation from the Catholic Church was not mainly intellectual. It was moral, even emotional.

November 28, 2018

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