A brilliant skeptic who wrote timeless novels
Nikos Kazantzakis, widely considered a giant of modern Greek literature, was nominated for the Nobel Prize in Literature nine times.
Morality evolved – too late for Alan Turing
Ministers hail "God's eternal laws", the supposedly changeless morality rules of the Bible. But they’re wrong. Morality evolves constantly.
When thinking is made a crime
Arrival of The Enlightenment gradually erased the church's power to kill people. But blasphemy laws still sent nonconformists to prison.
Can We Avoid Insulting Believers?
Skeptics face a quandary: When we declare that supernatural dogmas are false fairy tales, believers may feel bitterly insulted.
A short travel into the struggles that won us the freedom from religion
Separation of church and state was locked into the First Amendment of America’s Bill of Rights.
Alan Turing: why the tech world’s hero should be a household name
Turing was born into a world that was very different, culturally and technologically, yet his contribution has never been more important.
Is It Blasphemy – Or Honesty?
Blasphemy isn’t a dirty word. It's honorable and honest. It’s almost a duty of thinking people to express skepticism of supernatural mumbo-jumbo.
The Deep Theory behind Stifling Speech
The worst manifestations are in universities and their cultural spill-over zones. Campuses are the training ground.
Campus Power Politics – It’s Calculated Strategy
Most of the many grievances are not meant to be resolved. They are meant to fester and be used in the service of power-politics strategy.
Will the Alt-Right Make the Left embrace the Enlightenment?
If the Left can make itself adopt the Enlightenment commitment to rationality, then we can at least again appeal to facts and logic.
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