Skeptophilia

I'm taking a day off from our regularly scheduled programming because I am so sick at heart about what is happening in my country that ...

Back in November of 2015, I wrote a post that got a lot of pshaw-ing by people who ordinarily would be fairly close to me in political outl...

In psychologist Jonathan Haidt's seminal talk " The Moral Roots of Liberals and Conservatives ," he makes an intriguing statem...

The transition of a culture into fascism is seldom sudden.  It's a slow slide, urged forward by fear and xenophobia, and often catalyzed...

I think we need to clarify what counts as a "gotcha question." It's a charge that gets levied against the media every time a...

So it's summer, at least for us folks here in the Northern Hemisphere.  Living as I do in the Frozen North (better known as upstate New ...