The Nobel Prize “is honoring the science and the publicity, and they’re necessarily different.’… Read the rest

He was wearing rubber underwear…… Read the rest

Jesus hits a snag.… Read the rest

‘Freedom of religion must be limited, intrinsically, by the right to equality between women and men.’… Read the rest

Easterners flock to collect their degrees from Oxbridge, Harvard and the Sorbonne. Traffic in the other direction is minimal.… Read the rest

To assert the superiority of some values over others is no different from defending the former.… Read the rest

Where does it start? Jokes? No. Cartoons? No. A film? No. A book? No. Where then?… Read the rest

Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf wrote the preface to the NGO report.… Read the rest

The catastrophe in Iraq has made Makiya and the others who justified the invasion look reckless and naïve.… Read the rest

‘I don’t remember ever feeling, in every allowable sense of the word, quite so hollow.’… Read the rest

The urge to pass along pain lurks behind modern warfare no less than it did behind medieval pageantry.… Read the rest

Is Sam Harris right to reject labels like ‘Atheist’ and ‘Humanist’?… Read the rest

A symbol of the resistance, by many women from the Muslim world, to the horrors of clerical repression. … Read the rest

An indispensable witness to the splendor of open society and to the boundless energy of its antagonists.… Read the rest

The Texas law is a salvo in a long-running battle over the place of religion in US public schools.… Read the rest

One of the things that strikes me about reading Dan’s books is how much science I learn from them.… Read the rest

Is this new wave exploiting pop culture in the service of philosophical inquiry? Yes, and a good thing too.… Read the rest

The Edge of Evolution represents the best ID can do today in its effort to overcome ‘Darwinism’ with science.… Read the rest

Some Muslim medical students are refusing to attend lectures that ‘offend their religious beliefs.’… Read the rest

Khatoon Bibi was murdered near a security check post while attempting to reach the school where she taught.… Read the rest