Andrew Sullivan sums it up. Guantanamo has been an incredibly ghastly episode for America. If any other country had done half of what we have done, our government and media would have condemned its behavior nonstop from day one. Yet I constantly meet people who think that all of…
Do you want to celebrate the modern sanitized version of Thanksgiving, or do you want to make a little ruckus with some Thanksgiving straight talk around the dinner table? It's one of my unprovable articles of faith that one of the most valuable gifts I give others is to be…
I've often heard about "flow," but never from the man who was personally responsible for developing the theory: Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi (pronounced "cheeks sent me high").
Don't read this if you want to sleep well tonight. Stay away from the comments too. People would be swarming in the streets with pitchforks and torches tonight, except that so many of us are afflicted with innumeracy and because we are so easily distractible. How many of us have…
Paul Kurtz is the chairman and founder of the Center for Inquiry and the Editor-in-Chief of FREE INQUIRY Magazine. He is also a prolific author. Kurtz is featured in a Washington Post article entitled, "Belief in God Essential for Moral Virtue?" This is a succinct article that is well worth…