From 1879 to 1883 Chile, Bolivia, and Peru fought the War of the Pacific. By the end of the hostilities (Chile won) 55,000 people had been killed or wounded. The aim of the combatants was... Read More

“Karma, dharma, pudding, and pie...” isn’t exactly how we remember the line read to us in our tender years. But then, nursery rhymes are no longer thought of in the same way either—as innocent little... Read More

In the introduction to Living Without God, Ronald Aronson assumes a problem that many religious skeptics would quickly dismiss as not their problem. And yet it’s one to which I suspect many would welcome a... Read More

Chris Hedges is an experienced journalist who knows his way around the Middle East and the former Yugoslavia, as well as other troubled areas. He has written one of the more powerful arguments against war... Read More

Competition, cooperation, and compassion all play a part in free market systems--and the use of these traits can be explained with an economic analogy to the biological science of evolution, according to Michael Shermer's latest... Read More

THE PREDICTABLE backlash is now underway. In response to the popular atheist books of Susan Jacoby, Sam Harris, Daniel Dennett, Richard Dawkins, and Christopher Hitchens, we find that Regnery Publishing, "the nation's leading conservative publisher,"... Read More

Its ability to withstand an assault by Christopher Hitchens is one testament to the hardiness of religious faith. (I wouldn't want him mad at me.) A famously adept debater, armed with wit and erudition, Hitchens... Read More