Social & Cultural

David Foster Wallace, a writer, professor and committed atheist, died on Sept 12, 2008. He was perhaps best known for his book about John McCain’s 2000 presidential.....

Often in the sturm und drang of a world gone mad, there comes, through the chaos and insanity, some brief moment of clarity. Such times pass by.....

In a discussion in the past with a very bright and well-written libertarian friend, I took him to task for a position supporting for legalization of prostitution......

In recent essays we’ve been mud-wrestling about scientific materialism vs. faith — especially with that peculiar disdain and condescension secular scientists often exude toward those foolish enough.....

My first observation is one of puzzled bemusement, wondering why our good astronomer, and so many of his friends, seem compelled to bother with those crazy creationists.

Some things, it seems, never change: scientists never have doubts — and those who doubt their unerring wisdom must be mentally unwell.

In a culture of cartoon heroes, a real hero appears.

Scrutinizing the dentally-deficient gift horse of agnostic nihilism.

A wise friend—a man who helped me emerge from a period of considerable difficulty in my life—once taught me a simple lesson.

Liberation from bondage to shame through openness, vulnerability, and grace.

Cloaked in slogans of personal autonomy and “Death with Dignity”, euthanasia proponents seek to replace the sterile prolongation of a now-meaningless life with the warm embrace of.....

In the years following the Great War, a sense of doom and panic settled over Germany. Long concerned about a declining birth rate, the country faced the.....