Justice Antonin Scalia spoke at a Catholic high school in Metairie, Louisiana, last weekend about one of his favorite subjects: why it is both OK and a good idea for government to shove religion down... Read More

Maybe all the “Peace on earth, goodwill to men” carols have finally worn me down. Maybe I watched White Christmas and the Radio City Christmas Spectacular one too many times, causing something to snap. Maybe... Read More

From California to Tennessee to Australia to Massachusetts, the allegedly “neutral” teaching of religion in public schools is causing more and more problems. It’s time to get rid of it. Shortly before the Islamic State... Read More

One of the wonderful features of humanism is that humanists feel free to disagree among ourselves. Since we don’t believe in any divine truth emanating from on high, we can take differing views on particular... Read More

The New York Times has been running a series of articles exposing a major shift in American dispute resolution, away from the use of civil courts and toward reliance on out-of-court “arbitration.” Instead of using... Read More

I took my nephew to the zoo once when he was three years old. We had a fine time. As we were leaving, he spied a puddle on the sidewalk, made a beeline for it,... Read More

Last week I wrote about “America’s Newest Religion,” an outfit calling itself the “Creativity Movement” that advocates white supremacy in the crudest terms. A federal court in Colorado has blessed this as being a “religion,”... Read More