This article has been updated from a post that first appeared on December 16, 2011, at the former Rant ‘n Reason blog. Christopher Hitchens would have been sixty-six years old today. I once met him... Read More

Those who strongly support public education may not always realize how nationalistic it is, but from what is taught in publicly funded schools to how it’s being taught, curricula are a reflection of a nation’s... Read More

Despite frequent handwringing about all of the casual sex that millennials are having and the perils of hook-up culture, a recently released survey by the Public Religion Research Institute (PRRI) reveals that millennials actually are... Read More

When my boyfriend and I first started watching Trevor Noah’s stand-up comedy in late 2014, it was like discovering a hidden gem. Our inside jokes would center around something silly from his routines like saying... Read More

Last Tuesday’s CNN special was a forty-five minute feature on atheists in America that advertised itself as an exposé of “how the other side lives” (they referred to atheists by “the ‘A’ word”). Yet disappointingly,... Read More

The news looks grim for women in a recently released report by the Institute for Women’s Policy Research. Though women make up half of the workforce in the United States, their earnings still lag behind... Read More

Corporate-backed “right-to-work” laws, such as the measure just passed in Wisconsin with the strong support of Republican presidential prospect Gov. Scott Walker, are a prime example of a double standard in modern American society, where... Read More