The Taliban have made the 1.7 million people of Swat hostage, and the people continue to suffer.… Read the rest

Women’s rights are violated frequently and often without much notice from the public. … Read the rest

The grammatical advice is so inaccurate that counterexamples often show up on the very same page.… Read the rest

Franklin, a model to generations of scholars, students, and activists, had few peers. … Read the rest

Our age is the first to proclaim the power to reduce risk to zero simply by spreading it around. … Read the rest

How Rawls’s political philosophy was influenced by his religion.… Read the rest

It really really really happened. We know this.… Read the rest

The pope was defending African women, it’s a sensitive point, I’m not going to answer your question.… Read the rest

Sneer, sneer, sneer, sneer, I’m better than they are, sneer.… Read the rest

The best way to respond is to state a simple truth: there can be more than one bad thing in the world. … Read the rest

They’re a bad idea.… Read the rest

Survivors rush to thank God for sparing them.… Read the rest

He believes that expanding faith school provision helped to foster inter-faith relations.… Read the rest

Bunting argues all systems of thought rely on myth. Not all of them do. One in particular: thinking.… Read the rest

The president of Liberia talks to Terry Gross.… Read the rest

If a parent objects to what a child is being taught in science class, the teaching is religious and unconstitutional.… Read the rest

The more clerics rely on arguments based on religious claims, the more those claims will be challenged.… Read the rest

But you have to leave a message. No reports of God calling back yet.… Read the rest

Given his commitment to female equality, what does he really think of a church that bans women priests?… Read the rest

At the level of intuition and emotion people often have competing impulses.… Read the rest