As I mentioned above, I’ve just returned from a CATO lunch at which Ayaan Hirsi Ali was the guest (and very impressive) speaker. Amongst the points that caught my ear was her reply to a question about religion in America. What gave her the most concern was, she said (and I’m writing from memory, this isn’t an exact quotation), creationism in schools, “teaching superstition in the science class.” Three GOP presidential candidates might well (good grief…) disagree, but I could only applaud… Also important was her insistence that just because a belief system is described as a religion, that shouldn’t spare it from criticism in the name of some sort of ‘respect’/PC, call it what you will.