George Erickson is a retired dentist with a love for bush flying and a dislike for faith-based religions. In his latest book, Eyes Wide... Read More

As a pediatrician, I have a seemingly endless collection of hilarious stories. A toddler came in for a visit carrying along his security object—a... Read More

Texas has been in the news lately, and not in a good way. Its State Board of Education, which is firmly in the grip... Read More

On Friday, May 27, 2016, President Obama will become the first U.S. President to visit Hiroshima, Japan, site of the 1945 atomic bombing that... Read More

Skeptics sometimes frame the science versus religion debate as one of knowledge and enlightenment versus ignorance and superstition. This framing oversimplifies the problem in... Read More

There he was, gnomically staring out from the cover of the March 29, 2009, New York Times magazine. The accompanying article proclaimed Freeman Dyson... Read More

“Denial ain’t just a river in Egypt,” Mark Twain famously quipped. After almost a decade of delay in addressing the climate changes brought on... Read More

Henceforth, people will be looking at the universe with the eyes of oxen.    —Katib Chelebi, seventeenth-century geographer “Barack Obama won’t show us his birth... Read More

In an age of PSAs and the Vagina Monologues, many of us consider ourselves informed and educated about institutionalized female violence. “It happens over... Read More

In his acceptance speech at the 69th annual conference of the American Humanist Association (which will be featured in these pages in the fall),... Read More