Why in the first half of the twentieth century were women’s ankles considered sexy in the United States? Why are breasts considered intim...

We’re most embarrassed about that which almost all of us most want to do: we’re most secretive about our sex lives. If you could force th...

Nominal Christians think of the life of Jesus as being paradoxical. According to the myths which are typically misread as historical narr...

Richard Carrier is a prolific writer on ancient history, atheism, and naturalistic philosophy. I started reading him in the 1990s when he...

Art by Jim Kazanjian It’s often said that the scientific way of thinking is counterintuitive. Worse, the mathematical analysis of natur...

Events are sometimes grand enough to take on a mythic resonance that can be discerned even by those preoccupied by profane matters. The G...

Romantic and Rationalist histories from the early modern period in Europe sometimes compared the stages of our collective phylogeny wit...

The paperback edition of this blog’s central articles is available now on Amazon and Createspace. The book’s called Cosmic Horror for Cle...

I have an article up at Scott Bakker's website, called The Secret History of Enlightened Animals . It puts into the full existential c...

Dateline: WASHINGTON, D.C. — Democrats are rejoicing after the Republican population has shrunk by nearly two thirds because its opponent...