Skeptical Observations

A new social-networking Web site adopts a tasteless and sophomoric name. I have just learned that some enterprising morons have produc...

And what hope is there for secular government when you’ve got Republicans? Rep. John Shimkus (R., Illino...

The statement “Judaism is a people, not (just) a religion” seems like an important truth, but it is not even logically coherent. “Jewry is a...

Given the conditions of Jewish education in the United States, it is not surprising that so many children behave badly and learn little in H...

The diversity of religions presents a stubborn problem for Gould’s idea that religion has its own magisterium. The idea that the teaching au...

The criticisms that have been directed at Gould’s thesis of non-overlapping magisteria (for science, questions of how the natural world is; ...

According to Stephen Jay Gould, s cience and religion have separate domains of teaching authority, or “non-overlapping magisteria.” If so, t...

How political conservatism distorts thinking about dangers to the public and the environment. An addendum to my previous entry , on the ab...