March 2021

Derek Chauvin is on trial. Not George Floyd. Everyone saw him snuff out a man’s life in broad daylight.

Among Americans who identify as atheist, 81% are white, while only 3% are Black. We discuss the tremendous social challenges that Black skeptics face in extricating themselves from the Church.

Every single morsel of manufactured “red meat” outrage from right wing media follows the same predictable pattern.

Purity culture and the Atlanta spa murders.

Conservative bias in the Facebook algorithm and the heavy-handed caprice of “community standards” has mortally wounded public discourse.

Individualism without the social contract is not what Enlightenment thinkers had in mind. They would find that notion abhorrent. Freedom comes with responsibility.

Paying respects to the memory of the Bloody Sunday assault. Christophe reads a stirring description of that moment. The Voting Rights Act of 1965.

Homo sapiens went through a process of self-domestication by killing the most violent troublemakers in our species. Over thousands of generations, this reduced reactive aggression.

Abortion and creeping theocracy: the normalization of ultra-restrictive anti-abortion measures