Skeptophilia

A couple of nights ago, my wife and I watched the latest episode in the current series of Doctor Who , "Dot and Bubble."  [ Nota b...

One of the shakiest concepts in biological anthropology is race . Pretty much all biologists agree that race , as usually defined, has very ...

I always give a grim chuckle whenever someone on the far right calls us liberals "snowflakes," because when it comes to taking off...

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

For today's Fiction Friday, I'm asking a question not because I'm trying to lead you in any particular direction, but because I ...

This past weekend, I got into two apparently unrelated conversations with online acquaintances that at their basis amount to the same thing....

Here in the United States we're celebrating Thanksgiving today, hopefully by staying home and not turning this into a nationwide supersp...

You've probably heard the recent controversy about removing the statues of Confederate officers from prominent positions in the Deep Sou...

It's no secret that I'm a privileged white guy.  I've never had to deal with -- hell, I've never had to think  about -- bein...