Skeptophilia

The hunger for power is never satiated.  This unfortunate dark side of the human psyche has been illustrated in countless myths and folk leg...

Sometimes, and I say this with all due affection, my fellow humans scare the absolute shit out of me. This comes up because of a story I r...

What is it with people and cartoons? We've had people claiming that the Cat in the Hat is a coded symbol for the takeover of the world...

I'm going to make a bold statement here: in any modern society, the single most critical thing for fostering intellectual advancement is...

Some years ago, I remember being struck by a quote about democracy from C. S. Lewis when I read his book The Weight of Glory .  While I don...

A friend and loyal reader of Skeptophilia  called me out a couple of days ago for a statement I made in the post " Tribal mentality ,...

I'm sure that most of you have heard of Boko Haram , the group of Nigerian extremist Muslim nutjobs who hate the secular west's cult...

Let me say explicitly that I have no quarrel whatsoever with the majority of Christians. Despite being an out, and rather outspoken, athei...