In his first week, Trump moved towards building a wall and banning Muslims from entry into the country. He's keeping his promises. ...

Inventions matter more than people.  There are two kinds of inventions that fuel progress. Technological inventions like your smart phone...

Trump knows there were millions of illegal votes cast and that climate change is fiction in spite of a lack of evidence for the first and an...

The philosopher Robert Nozick offered a challenge in defense of the minimal state. Try to imagine a single utopia suited to the desires and ...

Without the support of the "abortion is murder" people, Trump would have lost. These people pretend to understand Christianity bet...

Trump has been critical - even dismissive - of Reagan and George W. Bush, Obama and Clinton. Meanwhile, he's had nothing but good to say...

Huston Smith died Friday at 97. He authored what became the standard comparative religions textbook (it sold about three million copies), T...

If you bring together parents of little ones aged 0 to 3, you'll hear them discuss very similar - nearly identical - stages of developme...

This little tidbit from Chris Jennings' fascinating Paradise Now: The Story of American Utopianism . The Owen mentioned is Robert Owen w...

The West led progress for centuries. Not because of superior genes but because of superior memes. The social inventions that have transforme...

Even some of my California friends had posted things like, "If you subtract California from the national vote, Trump won the popular vo...

Even an event as lovely as Christmas becomes a forum for dissent and proselytizing. It's not enough to simply let people enjoy the holid...

"There are known unknowns and unknown unknowns," Rumsfeld famously said. With the incoming Trump administration we might now say,...

The president's economic advisers released their annual report - the 2017 Economic Report of the President - today, 15 December. You can...

Fascinating article by Julie Beck at the Atlantic on our inner voice. Excerpt from early on: Inner speech, Fernyhough writes, isn’t boun...

You have heard that Usain Bolt is the world's fastest man. He ran 100 meters in a record 9.58 seconds, which works out to a speed of 23 ...

Nearly 20 years ago I was in Japan. People on the subway were staring at their lap and at first I thought they were merely avoiding eye cont...

In 2020, Kanye runs for president. The GOP laughs. He starts winning primaries. The GOP is dismissive.  He continues to win. "This ...

First, Islam is a religion. Like Christians, some Muslims are violent and anti-democracy or opposed to science and most love peace, democrac...

One of the most dangerous things about a Trump presidency is what it could mean for financial regulation. This weekend millions of America...