John Zmirak

John Zmirak is a senior editor at The Stream and author or co-author of ten books, including The Politically Incorrect Guide to Immigration and The Politically Incorrect Guide to Catholicism. His newest book is No Second Amendment, No First.

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Conversation with Dr. Egnor: Near-Death Experiences and Saving the Culture

_{John Zmirak
September 4, 2025}

"Near-death experiences (NDEs) are a huge and complex topic. Tens of millions of people have had NDEs and similar spiritual experiences."

Conversation with Dr. Egnor: Abstract Thought Comes from the Mind, Not the Brain

_{John Zmirak
September 2, 2025}

We can cut perceptional abilities with a knife, but we can’t cut reason and abstract thought.

Conversation with Dr. Egnor: Are We Meat Machines, and Why Does It Matter?

_{John Zmirak
August 28, 2025}

I found yours to be a fascinating and persuasive book on a crucial subject. You lay out the issues starkly.

Sternberg’s Immaterial Genome: Intelligent Design in the Present Tense

_{John Zmirak
May 21, 2025}

"Various scientists have sought to define the 'physical limits to computation,' and the information processing in the nucleus of a cell breaks that."

How the Christian Civil Rights Movement Defeated Social Darwinism and Eugenics

_{John Zmirak
May 30, 2024}

American apostles of Darwinism had begun the 20th century weaponizing common racist attitudes to popularize Darwin’s theory

Reasons to Believe: Eric Metaxas’s Powerful New Book, Is Atheism Dead?

_{John Zmirak
October 28, 2021}

Eric doesn’t just know the relevant books, but he knows most of the living authors, whose findings strip away the accumulated varnish of atheist materialism.