My new article on literature and the problem of evil is in the new CiRCE Magazine here . Here is an excerpt: When people look for a solu...

Panda's Thumb put up a blog post with an interesting title a couple of weeks ago: "Natural selection reduced diversity on human ...

I'm starting a new and occasional series of posts on this blog about words vying for legitimacy which should, on the contrary, be elim...

In a previous post, "Not Even Wrong," I pointed out that the belief that there is life on other planets is, in terms of Karl Poppe...

Here is an infographic on how the fifty states compare on various education measurements, mostly having to do with 8th grade. It is put out ...

President Barack Obama announced in his State of the Union Speech tonight that from now on everyone will get whatever they want whenever t...

Wendy Davis, the Texas gubernatorial candidate who rose to fame for filibustering a bill in the Texas legislature that would have prevente...

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE January 22, 2014 The Bureau for Better Atheists (BBA) today sanctioned Internet atheist P.Z. Myers for doing exactl...

P.Z. Myers has blogged on this post and, as usual, botched the job. My response is here . There many scientists who believe that there i...

Education historian Diane Ravitch savaged the Common Core Standards at last week's meeting of the Modern Language Association. I don...

Below is the text of an opinion piece that was published in the Danville Advocate-Messenger , my local paper: A law that violates the Firs...

I will be speaking at tomorrow morning's meeting of the Fayette County Republican Party on the Common Core Initiative. It begins at 9:30...