A Reasonable Celebration
On the National Day of Reason religious people of all sorts join non-believers in recognizing that a government of the people should use reason as the basis for creating and enforcing its laws and regulations.
On the National Day of Reason religious people of all sorts join non-believers in recognizing that a government of the people should use reason as the basis for creating and enforcing its laws and regulations.
Nicole Glass | Posted 04.25.2012
This fixation we have on productivity is an epidemic that is destroying character and transforming men into automatons.
G. Elijah Dann | Posted 05.05.2012
Santorum and Dolan are at least right on one point. No one should be saying that religious people can't participate in the public square. The reality is, however, the public square has a cacophony of voices.
Deepak Chopra | Posted 03.17.2012
There is a widespread shrug of the shoulders among Democrats -- "Romney wouldn't be so bad." But this in essence is a silent vote for unreason and a kick in the teeth to President Obama and his complete loyalty to reasoned policies.
Lee Brenner | Posted 02.26.2012
So as your favorite websites post their Top 10s and Best 10s and Worst 10s of 2011, we thought we'd just post 10 videos we enjoyed this year -- some you will have definitely seen, some you may not have. They're not the best or worst. They're just cool.
The Huffington Post | Posted 11.21.2011
WASHINGTON -- Are taxi-fare rates in the nation's capital too high or too low? On Tuesday, as The Huffington Post reported, two associations represent...
Jeff Schweitzer | Posted 10.30.2011
The incompatibility between faith and reason come into full glory in the political arena. And nowhere is that made more clear than the rush toward willful ignorance in the field of Republican presidential candidates.
Mark Olmsted | Posted 09.11.2011
Anyone who has suffered from addiction or is close to someone who has knows how immune to reason the disease is.
Paul Stoller | Posted 09.05.2011
If Republican leaders begin to act more like public servants and less like non-thinking fundamentalist soldiers, we might begin to repair our political system. If not, their absolutism will plunge us into unspeakable economic darkness.
Kathleen Reardon | Posted 08.22.2011
Critical argument in the U.S. media is no longer about seeking truth to correct or sustain our formative values; rather it is about winning so that others might lose. How do we find a way back?
Paul Stoller | Posted 07.26.2011
If you think that these kinds of apocalyptic beliefs are "primitive" or "far-fetched," think again. Americans seem to have a deep hunger for reading material about the End Times Rapture.
Susan Smalley, Ph.D. | Posted 11.17.2011
It became clearer to me that how we relate to our "beliefs" may be more important than the belief or knowledge itself.
Leah Anthony Libresco | Posted 05.25.2011
As a former Jeopardy contestant myself, I knew Watson was beating them where it hurt, not with superior general knowledge of trivia, but by avoiding typical human logical weaknesses.
Omar Baddar | Posted 05.25.2011
She opens her eyes, not quite sure where she is, shocked to find herself at a strange party full of strange people. She's overwhelmed by the confusion...
David Ropeik | Posted 05.25.2011
Bisphenol A. is a classic case of how, as much as we'd like to think our thinking brain can calculate risk based on facts, in the end it's not just about facts, but how those facts feel.
Terry Newell | Posted 05.25.2011
"The mind, once enlightened, cannot again become dark." - Thomas Paine to Abbe Raynal, 1782 Thomas Jefferson wanted only three things on his tombsto...
Andrew Pessin | Posted 05.25.2011
The reasonable theist and atheist may reach opposite conclusions, but both will spend much of their time investigating, in an open-minded (and frequently critical) way, the strongest and most coherent versions of theism available.
Srinivasan Pillay | Posted 11.17.2011
Talking is a balm for the lonely and afraid, but a poison for those who use it to replace the art of living.
Susan Smalley, Ph.D. | Posted 11.17.2011
We see only as far as our mind is willing to look. Fear keeps us on the safe ground of reason - sturdy, predictable, secure. But sometimes we are pushed to its edge by Nature herself.
New Scientist | Lois Lee and Stephen Bullivant | Posted 05.25.2011
If religion comes so naturally to us, why are so many people, especially in western Europe, apparently resistant to it? New Scientist calls for scient...
Jeremy Rifkin | Posted 05.25.2011
Today, a new generation of scientists, scholars, and social reformers are beginning to challenge some of the underlying assumptions of both the Age of Faith and the Age of Reason, taking us into the Age of Empathy.
George Lakoff | Posted 05.25.2011
In one experiment, the strength of blink reflexes to unexpected noises was measured and correlated with degrees of reactions to external threats. Conservatives reacted considerably more strongly than liberals.
Greg Evans | Posted 05.25.2011
Watching Lost has always been an act of faith. Polar bears, time travel, everything -- it's one long benefit of the doubt. But something's different this season, some conversion where faith has become Faith.
Clay Farris Naff | Posted 11.17.2011
More than 800 churches, synagogues, and other houses of worship have signed on for "Evolution Weekend." They come from all 50 states, plus the District of Columbia, and a dozen nations abroad.
Laura Flanders | Posted 05.25.2011
A three-year freeze on public spending on everything except entitlements, veterans benefits and security? Two years into a major recession -- a deva...
Roy Speckhardt | Posted 05.02.2012