Skeptophilia

To continue with this week's theme, which has mostly been about how completely baffling I find the behavior of my fellow humans a lot of...

Well, Tuesday came and went, and no one got Raptured. Not that I was expecting to go myself.  If anything, it was more likely the ground wou...

Haruki Murakami's odd and atmospheric short story collection First Person Singular  looks at those moments in our lives where something ...

In his book Nothing's Sacred: The Truth About Judaism , media scholar Douglas Rushkoff discusses his concept of "open-source religi...

I hold two strong opinions that sometimes come into conflict with one another. The first is that everyone comes to understand the universe i...

I'm probably pasting a big-ass bullseye right on my chest even asking this, but I have to: Trump supporters, what would it take for you ...

Today is Halloween, and in honor of that spookiest day of the year, I'm going to tell you a story. It's a story about something th...

Cult (n.) -- a system of religious veneration and devotion directed toward a particular figure or object, often involving a misplaced or ex...