When Religious Freedom Is a Recipe for Discrimination
Jack Phillips owns a bakery in Lakewood, Colorado. Phillips is a conservative evangelical Christian who opposes marriage equality. He insists that his beliefs give... Read More
History Has its Eyes on Us
Who do we want to be? This is a crucial time in US history, indeed, in the history of the world. It’s an ugly... Read More
A Warm Embrace
I’m not what most would consider a typical prisoner serving life without parole. I’m black, but I didn’t grow up in an impoverished inner... Read More
POETRY: The sample is shining
“It’s the first-ever sample of metallic hydrogen on Earth, so when you’re looking at it, you’re looking at something that’s never existed before.” —Isaac... Read More
A Crack in Creation: Gene Editing and the Unthinkable Power to Control Evolution
BOOK BY JENNIFER DOUDNA AND SAMUEL STERNBERG HOUGHTON MIFFLIN HARCOURT, 2017 304 PP.; $28.00 (HARDCOVER) $14.99 (KINDLE) CRISPR is the basis of a genome... Read More
Cigarettes & Wine
BOOK BY J.E. SUMERAU SENSE PUBLISHERS, 2017 250 PP.; $25.00 Cigarettes & Wine, by J.E. Sumerau, is a novel that illuminates fresh perspectives on... Read More
Fantasyland: How America Went Haywire: A 500-Year History
BOOK BY KURT ANDERSEN RANDOM HOUSE, 2017 480 PP.; $30.00 In James Joyce’s Ulysses, Stephen Dedalus claims that history is a nightmare from which... Read More
The Time Is Ripe for Some Good Old Humanist Inspiration
I DON’T KNOW ABOUT YOU, but I’m really freaked out these days. Last weekend my daughter (soon to be thirteen) told me she felt... Read More
The X-Man Effect: When Genetics Catch Up to Human Mutation
I am not a geneticist. In fact, when meeting with scientists at the National Institute of Health (NIH), I often paraphrase Denzel Washington’s famous... Read More
Richard Spencer Pays $10,000 to Get Heckled
What bothers me most about Richard Spencer is obviously the white nationalism, but a close second is the fact that he’s defiling the name... Read More
