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...

Today I'd like to look at the state of Arizona, where this week a 4-2 decision by the state's Supreme Court made abortions illegal ...

Okay, y'all, can we agree to stop calling them conspiracy theories ?  A theory is a scientific model backed up by experimentation and/or...

So it's Black Friday, wherein we Americans follow up a day set aside to give thanks for everything we have with a day set aside to tramp...

I wonder if you've heard about the latest attempt to turn the state of Florida into an autonomous authoritarian oligarchy. No, I'm n...

You probably saw that Marjorie Taylor  Traitor Greene has called for a "national divorce" along red state/blue state lines, split...

Since 2016, one of the most persistent puzzles to me has been the unflagging support of evangelical Christians for Donald Trump, a man whose...

I don't think I'll ever understand the conspiracy theorist mindset. It's not, mind you, that I think conspiracies never happen. ...

In Dorothy Sayers' novel Gaudy Night , set (and written) in 1930s England, a group of Oxford University dons are the targets of threats ...