The Faith Of Religion Is Belief On

Unreason Is Now Ascendant In The United States - In Our Schools, In Our Courts, And In Each Branch Of The Federal Government. Only 28 Percent Of Americans Believe In Evolution; 68 Percent Believe In Satan. Ignorance In This Degree, Concentrated In Both The Head And Belly Of A Lumbering Superpower, Is Now A Problem For The Entire World.

This Is How You Play Tennis Without The Net

How Can We Encourage Other Human Beings To Extend Their Moral Sympathies Beyond A Narrow Locus? How Can We Learn To Become Mere Human Beings, Shorn Of Any More Compelling National, Ethnic, Or Religious Identity? We Can Be Reasonable. It Is In The Very Nature Of Reason To Fuse Cognitive And Moral Horizons. Reason Is Nothing Less Than The Guardian Of Love.

I Am One Of The Few People I Know Of Who Has Argued In Print That Torture May Be An Ethical Necessity In Our War On Terror.

Islam, At The Moment, Is The Motherlode Of Bad Ideas.