In Peter Frankopan's new book, The Silk Roads , he offers one explanation for the spread of Islam that I'd never heard before: it wa...

“My first act of free will shall be to believe in free will.” -           William James A friend of a friend made a really intriguing...

This week, Angela Merkel proclaimed that Germany is a Christian nation and that the Muslim faith doesn’t really have a place in it. Ferdinan...

It seems a truism that inland regions are less tolerant. People who live on coasts around ports have been continually exposed to a variety o...

Huckabee is on the cover of Newsweek. He's a likable guy. (My favorite quote of his is, "I'm a conservative, but I'm not an...

News flash. Barack Obama attended a Muslim madrassa in Indonesia. This is a source of great excitement among the right-wingosphere. (I'v...

Expectations have a huge influence over our resultant reality. If you expect that people will act rude towards you, the probability of that ...

By the time you read this, George will have announced his intention to send another 20,000+ troops into Iraq. Here are two reasons to resist...

It seems as though we have a few choices in dealing with the Muslims who share the planet with us: 1. Send Sam Harris, author of The End of ...