https://pjmedia.com/richardfernandez/2008/08/21/42/feed/PJ Media is a leading news site covering culture, politics, faith, homeland security, and more. Our reporters and columnists provide original, in-depth analysis from a variety of perspectives.en-usThu, 11 Jun 2026 00:39:33 -0400<![CDATA[The venue selected was improbably beside a bar, whose door was barred by a number of hefty bouncers. But I looked at the address and there was no mistake. The Oxford mathematician John Lennox, who had debated Richard Dawkins and Christopher Hitchens on the question of the existence of God was due to speak somewhere in the building. Lennox had recently written God&#8217;s Undertaker, a book which while ostensibly about the God is really about knowledge. A line of well-dressed men and women was forming in a small vestibule beside the bouncers. I had discovered the entrance to the upper floors. None of the elevators worked, so the crowd eventually trooped to the alleyway behind and made their way up the fire escape.]]>Thu, 21 Aug 2008 16:27:22 -0400<![CDATA[Richard Fernandez]]>https://pjmedia.com/richard-fernandez/2008/08/21/42-n185947