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February 2012

February 01, 2012
I've had a busy last few months, and I confess I've fallen behind on my...

January 2012

January 30, 2012
We've been discussing Islam a lot on this blog in the past few days, and...
January 29, 2012
Last week, four third-party U.S. presidential candidates had a debate in Chicago. As is usual...
January 28, 2012
I'm surprised to still be writing about blasphemy laws, but it seems the idea just...
January 28, 2012
For those who are interested, here's my schedule for the next few months. I've got...
January 27, 2012
In 2009, the Roman Catholic church convened an "apostolic visitation" - a sort of modern-day...
January 25, 2012
This essay was previously published on AlterNet. Last November, I attended a debate in the...
January 24, 2012
My latest article has been posted on AlterNet, Once Again, Believers Have it Wrong: Atheists...
January 23, 2012
Via Dangerous Intersection, I saw this TED lecture by Daniel Kahnemann, based on his book...
January 22, 2012
I originally got this idea from Feministe, and I used to do it every couple...
January 20, 2012
This week, there's been a flurry of stories about Muslim groups trying to suppress criticism...
January 18, 2012
The world is increasingly taking notice of the turmoil brewing in Israel, where a growing...
January 16, 2012
Guest post by Samantha Eliza Benten The Law of Non-Contradiction, as stated by Aristotle: "One...
January 14, 2012
• Here's the top story for this week: After Jessica Ahlquist's court victory over illegal...
January 13, 2012
Peter Hitchens has written two further comments on my previous post, in one of which...
January 12, 2012
I've previously written about the case of Jessica Ahlquist, an incredibly brave young atheist from...
January 11, 2012
One of my all-time most popular posts on Daylight Atheism, "The Scars of Evolution", lists...
January 10, 2012
Last month, I was invited to Syracuse University by the local affiliate of the Secular...
January 09, 2012
My latest article has just been published on AlterNet, Why Is America's Most Progressive Voting...
January 08, 2012
As I've often mentioned, religion has a set of cognitive tricks - unconscious ideas, prejudices...
January 08, 2012
This weekend, I was upstate in the Hudson Valley visiting my parents, and we went...
January 07, 2012
By way of giving advice and/or comparing notes with other bloggers who use them, I...
January 06, 2012
Earlier this week, Penn Jillette posted a link to this essay by Mallorie Nasrallah on...
January 04, 2012
After our last go-round, Peter Hitchens has posted a further reply. I encourage you to...
January 02, 2012
Happy New Year, everyone! As I may have mentioned in the past, I like the...

December 2011

December 31, 2011
One of the traditions of my old site was, at the end of each year,...
December 30, 2011
My previous post quoted Peter Hitchens, the conservative Christian brother of the late Christopher Hitchens,...
December 28, 2011
While reading some remembrances of Christopher Hitchens, I came across a column which quoted this...
December 26, 2011
Since moving to Big Think, there's a viewpoint I'm encountering more and more often. This...
December 23, 2011
If you search on "what the Bible says about astrology", you'll get a flood of...
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