Salary History Doesn’t Equal My Worth!

Let's say you take a job right out of college while you're deciding whether you can afford graduate school or not. The work is engaging, but the pay is low. Still, you figure it's worthwhile... Read More
Mining the Moon: Will Lunar Resource Competition Spark Future Wars?

Many rejoiced last week when the Moon Express became the first private spaceflight company to receive clearance from the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) to land on the moon. After decades of stagnation, progress towards further... Read More
Shake Things Up by Sitting Out the Pledge of Allegiance

Public schools are supposed to teach kids to think critically, right? Students should be learning to apply rational analysis, assessing evidence, and reaching logical conclusions with the knowledge they’ve accumulated and the intellectual skills they’ve... Read More
Nonbelief in Nigeria: Can Critical Thinking Thrive in a Deeply Religious Society?

I was born in Nigeria and brought up by staunchly Christian parents who, with strict discipline, imposed upon me their Christian values and ideals. When I was a child, my parents, particularly my father, read... Read More
What’s in a Name? The Contentious (but Correct) Decision by the Marines to Remove “Man” from Job Titles

When it comes to changing the language, I think [feminists] make some good points. Because we do think in language. And so the quality of our thoughts and ideas can only be as good as... Read More
Is Gene Editing Causing a Revival of Eugenics?

Last week the National Institutes of Health cleared the gene-editing technology known as CRISPR (Clustered Regularly Interspaced Short Palindromic Repeats) for its first clinical test of human patients. While the initial test involves editing to... Read More
Ban Cisgender White Men From Public Bathrooms: A Modest Proposal

With all the troubles in the world—radical Islamic terrorism, climate change, Donald Trump—it’s good that the religious right is focused on the biggest existential threat to America: transgender women wanting to pee in women’s bathrooms.... Read More