While reading Stephen Greenblatt’s award-winning book, The Swerve, three years ago, I stumbled on a delightful fact. It seems that devotees of the Greek... Read More

Many of today’s human problems—war, crime, disease, incarceration, starvation, lack of love, abuse of others—could be dealt with far better without an  accompanying supernatural... Read More

The basic premise of the Affordable Care Act (ACA) is that everybody gets sick at some point, some in ways far more expensive to... Read More

“Creativity” is a word often associated with the beautiful in form and function, something precious to human beings, who tend to think they invented... Read More

This article is part of Carl Coon’s ongoing “A Short History of Evolution” series. Click here to read all entries in this series.

If Cosmos is forbidden fruit, then count me as one of the deflowered. As I wrote last week, I never watched the original Cosmos... Read More

Have you heard the news? The BICEP2 team has discovered the signature of gravitational waves from the Big Bang! Whoooeee! Hot damn! So...what exactly... Read More

I’ve spent most of my life working to understand how best to live in a way that would improve the lives of every person.... Read More

In February the American Humanist Association’s Board of Directors issued a resolution clarifying humanism’s position on online privacy, largely in response to the National... Read More

A quiet dawn is breaking over Mobile Bay, Alabama, as Captain Rob backs the trailer down the public ramp. I cast loose the trailer... Read More