The Evolutionary Politics of Ben Stein

While a few of us have tried to win his money, seen him with Charles Osgood on Sunday mornings and/or wrote speeches with him in the Nixon White House, he remains a pop cultural icon for his turn as as the "Anyone? Anyone?" monotone Economics professor in the John Hughes touchstone, "Ferris Bueller's Day Off."

He is now an advocate for the creationist-intelligent design movement and has a provocative documentary out called Expelled: No Intelligence Allowed. It opened nationwide yesterday but I had a chance to see a screening of a few weeks ago here in LA. Regardless of where you stand in the debate and on freedom on inquiry, it is interesting to say the least--especially his exploration into Darwinism and how it served the philosophical underpinnings of Nazism.

FYI. Richard Dawkins, an evolutionary biologist featured prominently in the film and author of The God Delusion, had an op-ed in the Los Angeles Times yesterday and was recently on Real Time. Btw, Bill Maher's pro-agnostic documentary Religulous arrives this summer.

There are several negative reviews of Expelled but here is a positive one by L. Brent Bozell.