View all episodes in the Cartoon History of Humanism series. Reason From Passion: David Hume, The Great Infidel Humans are frightfully good at getting used to things. The phenomenal becomes the commonplace with depressing regularity,... Read More

For a bulk of it, 1,000 Lashes seems like a compellingly dull book. If its passages were published in, for example, The New York Times, they would probably come off as the last breath of consensus liberalism. Intellectuals are overpraised for... Read More

The latest from your favorites: Jesus and Mo, Raging Pencils, and The Atheist Pig!              

The latest from your favorites: Jesus and Mo, Raging Pencils, and The Atheist Pig!              

Journalist and Middle Eastern cultural expert Diana Darke once wrote, “In Iran, they say there are two books in every household—the Koran and Hafez. One is read, the other is not.” (For perspective, the fourteenth... Read More

In just a little over a month, eager fans of the Star Wars saga will see the next installment of the franchise, The Force Awakens, on the big screen. Despite the letdown of the prequel... Read More

View all episodes in the Cartoon History of Humanism series. Keeping it Real: The Pragmatic Religious Skepticism of Niccolò Machiavelli Perhaps misrepresenting Machiavelli is a deep necessity of human civilization. We need a totem for... Read More