A more humorous version of this essay is presented here: In Which Rawls Buys A Veil of Ignorance at Victoria's Secret Humanism has many virtues. It defends science in an age of conspiracy theories, secular... Read More

A woman asks an AI system trained on her deceased mother’s emails whether she should quit her job. The answer comes back in her mother’s voice. Death has traditionally meant the end of a life... Read More

For all the evils and atrocities caused by organized religion, it did provide one benefit to its adherents that is largely missing in secular societies. Organized religion has historically been the main source of social... Read More

The regime of Republican President Donald Trump is an enterprise built on perfidy, corruption and bigotry. It is clear, given the conduct of the administration and how it operates the censorship regime it established to... Read More

You reach a stage in life where the big questions stop feeling like ideas you can keep at a distance and start showing up in everyday moments you did not expect. They appear in conversations... Read More

Your feelings toward plastic are likely rooted in the pop-culture touchstones of your generation. Could it be DC Comics’ “Plastic Man” who debuted in 1941? Is it your mom’s Tupperware parties or your first Lego... Read More

American political life is filled with speeches about virtue. Candidates invoke family, faith, responsibility and the moral health of the nation. Then campaign season arrives, and the same system quietly asks a different question: Who... Read More