Archive Index - NonProphet Status

November 26, 2014

Going vegan for the end of the year: my interview with Cory Booker

I had the unusual pleasure of interviewing Senator Cory Booker early yesterday evening for The Daily...

November 25, 2014

#Ferguson responses roundup

On Monday night, a grand jury consisting of nine white and three black members announced...

November 24, 2014

Jeremy Messersmith releases Christmas single, declares War on Christmas

Today, one of my favorite artists released a single containing what is certain to become...

November 24, 2014

Kwame Anthony Appiah on honor, respect, and moral revolutions

Kwame Anthony Appiah, a political and moral philosopher at NYU, has turned in recent years...

November 21, 2014

Reza Aslan: the vast majority of atheists aren’t anti-religious

Today, Reza Aslan published a piece at Salon that I think perfectly expresses a lot of my...

November 21, 2014

If you treat feminism only as a weapon to attack Islam, then you are not a passionate feminist

Earlier this week, Kimberly Winston at Religion News Service reported that Richard Dawkins refuses to backtrack...

November 20, 2014

Dawkins’ take on sexual harassment is par for the course

In a recent interview published by Kimberly Winston on Religion News Service (RNS), Richard Dawkins...

November 19, 2014

Pope Francis sells excess to help the poor, and maybe we should too

For all of the institutional complaints one might have with the Catholic Church, they have...

November 18, 2014

Seeing God as male correlates with same-sex marriage opposition

"Viewing God as Masculine Impacts One’s View of Gay Marriage," reads a headline from The Pacific...

November 17, 2014

My friends write cool things: Morality, identity, and Mormons on the internet

Aeon has quickly grown to be one of my favorite online magazines; they publish in-depth and...

November 14, 2014

Could the Western Ebola scare help those truly at risk?

Moral philosopher Peter Singer recently argued that it may “turn out to be fortunate” that...

November 13, 2014

Should vegans eat bugs?

Since I've been blogging and writing more,[1. I just signed papers the other day making...

November 12, 2014

Maryland School district does away with religious holidays instead of accommodating Muslim ones

In Maryland's Montgomery County, the Board of Education voted 7-1 to remove religious holidays from...

November 12, 2014

Martha Nussbaum is totally right about male culture

A few days back, The Nation published a piece by Martha Nussbaum titled “Haterz Gonna...

November 10, 2014

Atheists who experience discrimination identify more strongly as atheists

At The Pacific Standard, Tom Jacobs discusses recent research on how atheist identity is affected by experiences...

November 09, 2014

Is “Is God Dead?” Dead?

My latest for The Daily Beast, where I talk about Lawrence Krauss and some research I really...

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