Charlie Sheen can take it, but God goes all to pieces.… Read the rest

Dorra Bouzid, a well-known journalist and feminist, said women had to be prepared to fight to keep the rights they had won.… Read the rest

Skeptically Speaking is a show for people who are curious about the world, whether they consider themselves skeptics or not.… Read the rest

Iranian prosecutors said Kazemi and Hajaghaei had taken photos and footage of the protests and distributed them on the internet.… Read the rest

Iran has sentenced around a dozen activists to death for their role in the post-poll unrest.… Read the rest

For Montaigne, as for contemporary neuroscientists, humans have an inbuilt imitative, sympathetic capacity.… Read the rest

She rejects the argument that assisted dying undermines trust in the medical profession. “It is the other way round – not being able to assist undermines trust.”… Read the rest

The pursuit of meaningful predictions in astrology isn’t so much flogging a dead horse as punching a piece of rock and wondering why it won’t say anything.… Read the rest

Religion’s chief vir­tue is as a “cop­ing mech­a­nism” for our trou­bles.… Read the rest

New atheists are so patronizing. Their tiny minds just can’t grasp our profundities.… Read the rest

Mo should go into politics.… Read the rest

It’s remarkable that Human Rights Commissions could so easily be hijacked in support of suppressing criticism of extreme ideologies.… Read the rest

Religitigants seem to want a trump card that puts them above the subtle considerations of fairness.… Read the rest

She wants to give greater voice to religion in the political arena, yet she also wishes there to be less criticism of religion, in other words, power without scrutiny.… Read the rest

This is an argument between those who think that only violence need concern us, and those who believe it is from bad ideas that bad actions spring.… Read the rest

Who is less moral, Berlusconi or Ratzinger?… Read the rest

Offers two random comments at Dawkins’s website as “evidence.” Yes really.… Read the rest

She thinks an alliance of  independent socialists, Islamists and liberals would be just the thing for Tunisia.… Read the rest

CEMB is a hugely important sanctuary for women and men who face threats, intimidation and/or isolation for leaving Islam.… Read the rest

Observers hoping Ben Ali’s fall will portend a similar fate for other Arab autocrats may be left waiting a lot longer than they think.… Read the rest