Skeptophilia

You've undoubtedly heard British philosopher Thomas Hobbes 's famous quote that in the past, our forebears' lives were "nas...

Okay, just yesterday I said that I was gonna try to keep it light and stop focusing on dismal developments like pandemics and climate catast...

The observation that politicians tend to lie is so obvious as to hardly need comment.  As far back as 2,400 years ago, Plato observed, ...

Telling an outright, bald-faced lie on a major issue should exclude you from running for public office. Yes, I know that would exclude thr...

In Umberto Eco's brilliant novel Foucault's Pendulum, three worldly and skeptical book editors whose company specializes in publish...