Skeptophilia

Spartacus was a Thracian slave and gladiator, born in around 103 B.C.E. in what is now Bulgaria, about whose early years (despite several m...

Here's a question I wonder if you've ever pondered: Why do the Spanish and French speak Romance languages and not Germanic ones? It...

In 376 C.E., an enormous group of Germanic-speaking Goths, primarily from the Tervingi and Greuthungi  tribes, showed up along the Danube R...

Authors reveal more in their work, sometimes, than they may have intended. That thought crossed my mind more than once while reading the boo...

Given how thoroughly explored the world seems to be, it's easy to assume that we've found pretty much everything there is to be foun...

My wife, Carol Bloomgarden, is an amazing artist, and participates in art shows all over the northeastern United States.  (Her work is calle...

During the reign of Augustus Caesar , the Roman leadership felt very close to all-powerful. They had enjoyed unbridled expansion into what i...

Allegedly there is a traditional Chinese curse that goes, "May you live in interesting times." It's certainly true that the pe...

One of the questions I get asked the most often, in the context of skepticism and critical thinking, is, "What would it take to change ...