Luis Granados
Posts by Luis Granados (page 25)
Film Review: Going Clear, HBO’s Documentary on Scientology
My favorite line from Casablanca is uttered by Captain Renault, exclaiming that he is “shocked—shocked—to find that gambling is going on in here!” right... Read More
Rules Are for Schmucks: What Would a Secular Foreign Policy Look Like?
The most badly bungled episode in American foreign policy since the Vietnam War has been our fumble of the opportunity presented by the “Arab... Read More
Rules Are for Schmucks: A Review of God’s Bankers
The first 98 percent of Gerald Posner’s God’s Bankers, released last month, makes compelling reading. Then he drops the ball. At bottom, religion is... Read More
Rules Are for Schmucks: What’s the Difference between a Christian Nation and a Jewish State?
Humanists don’t agree on everything, but one area where we’re pretty close to unanimity is revulsion at the thought of America being officially (or... Read More
Rules Are for Schmucks: How to Succeed in Rome
You can get jaded reading too much news, especially too much religion news. Muslims murdering innocents in creative new ways … Jews kicking more... Read More
A Humanist Economics
THOMAS PIKETTY grabbed the world’s attention last year with his magnum opus, Capital in the Twenty-first Century. In hundreds of pages of dense prose... Read More
Rules Are for Schmucks: Freedom to Infect
Vaccination has been in the news lately, as America experiences a new spread of a measles virus that we were told had been stamped... Read More