If the Second Amendment Was Meant for Genocide, Is It Sacred?
Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz’s new book, Loaded: A Disarming History of the Second Amendment, could be criticized for how little it seems to discuss the Second Amendment... Read More
Controlling Bodies: An Interview with Andrea J. Ritchie
In her groundbreaking new book, Invisible No More: Police Violence Against Black Women and Women of Color, Black lesbian activist attorney Andrea J. Ritchie... Read More
Not-So-Civil Religion: The Long-Running Fraud of “Ceremonial Deism”
I occasionally meet with delegations of visitors from overseas as part of a program run by the US State Department. The visitors, usually government... Read More
Pop Culture and Suspension of Disbelief: The Good Place
Contains mild spoilers for one episode of The Good Place. There's a ton of magic and religion in our popular culture. I don't mean... Read More
What Will Be Human in the Future?
What does it mean to be human? As it relates to artificial intelligence (AI), this important question has been explored in science fiction films... Read More
Little Hell on the Prairie
Reflecting on recent developments within the humanist movement while chatting with a friend, I was reminded of a single, short snippet among my fifty-plus... Read More
Virtual Reality and Empathy
“Walk a mile in my shoes,” singer-songwriter Joe South advised back in the (highly overrated) peace and love days of 1969. ... Read More
Objection! The Word of God Doesn’t Belong in a Courtroom
Religion in the courtroom is extremely problematic because of the responsibility and trust placed in judges and juries to make impartial and rational decisions.... Read More
RITUAL
A lone turkey struts on our back porch picking at droves of sunflower seed shells for we have been solacing the persistent birds all... Read More
How to Be a Stoic: Using Ancient Philosophy to Live a Modern Life
BOOK BY MASSIMO PIGLIUCCI BASIC BOOKS, 2017 262 PP.; $27.00 A glance at Amazon.com reveals no less than thirty-two books published in 2017 applying... Read More
