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Thomas Paine said, "He who would make his own liberty secure, must guard even his enemy from oppression; for if he violates this duty h...

There are times when my uncompromising support of the right to free speech runs head-first into my uncompromising commitment to the truth. T...

A couple of days ago I broke my cardinal rule -- arguing with strangers about politics on the internet -- when someone posted a snarky reply...

The word education  comes from the Latin verb educare , meaning "to draw out of." Too many people involved in the educational pr...

It's been kind of a grim week here at Skeptophilia .  The news over the last few days has been seriously depressing, what with the curre...

It's time to quote Voltaire again: "I may not agree with what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it."...

There is a fundamental difference between criticizing an idea and criticizing a person. Ideas stand or fall based upon their consonance wi...

So apparently, someone over at the Hallmark Channel  thought it'd be a good idea to censor out the word "god" in their broadc...

It is a source of immense frustration to me that people seem to be quite good at accusing those they disagree with of being irrational, whil...