Chatting with Eve Tushnet  I did an interview with Eve Tushnet
(a fellow Patheos blogger and a friend from college debate) over
at Catholic Lane.  Now that I’m reading it, it’s a
little embarrassing how many times Eve had to use brackets to
translate a gesture or noise I was making into, y’know, words.
(Meanwhile, at rationality camp, I was trying to help someone
correct an error in a math question by saying “No, no, you need
to throw up a [holds up forearms, perfectly parallel and makes a
clicking noise] which, shockingly, the person at the board did
not immediately realize meant “Put absolute value bars around
the expression.”)  So fair warning that any lacuna and weird
conceptual leaps are way more my fault than the result of Eve’s
condensing.  I had a lot of fun in our chat, because I know Eve
well and I could skip right to the weirder, more interesting
ideas instead of spending so much time on background.  So here’s
a sampling from the article:     ET: What do Catholics need to
know about atheists?     R