Recently I was listening to the Embrace the Void podcast episode “Tolerate Me Bro!” about Popper’s paradox of tolerance. Hosts […]

Ohio’s governor John Kasich has signed into law a ban on abortion performed on the basis of Down syndrome. I’m […]

The insider-outsider problem in the study of religion entails that an insider in a religious tradition has an advantage of […]

At work the other day, we got into a discussion about names. Weird family names, bizarre nicknames, the difference (if […]

The manhunt for the terrorists continues. At least three mosques in various French cities have been attacked. News sources deliberate […]

This Slate article has a collection of photos of “bum-free” additions to buildings and structures in public areas intended for […]

…sorta: I was talking to a lot of press this week – I mean a LOT of press, and most […]

Apparently part of the issue with David Silverman’s statements is that people think he brought up secular arguments against abortion […]

Cultural relativism: a moral standard that which maintains that cultural norms are good simply because they are cultural norms, and […]

People sometimes find my blog by searching for some variation on “Is it okay to be rude to a cop?” […]