Skeptophilia

The whole "they're weird" thing seems to be getting under the Republicans' skin. J. D. Vance took the opportunity in an in...

In John Neufeld's novel Sleep, Two, Three, Four! ,  the United States has become a fascist dictatorship, run by President Wagenson, who ...

The first people targeted by political ideologues are almost always the artists, authors, poets, and other creatives. No other group has a w...

Back in November of 2015, I wrote a post that got a lot of pshaw-ing by people who ordinarily would be fairly close to me in political outl...

In psychologist Jonathan Haidt's seminal talk " The Moral Roots of Liberals and Conservatives ," he makes an intriguing statem...

Can I ask my readers who are conservative to stop for a moment, take a deep breath, and listen to what the leaders in the race for the Repu...

The transition of a culture into fascism is seldom sudden.  It's a slow slide, urged forward by fear and xenophobia, and often catalyzed...