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Much like road rage, a retribution-based foreign policy represents an evolutionary impulse poorly suited to the modern world.
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Failed strategy decisions have left the "Nonzero" author pessimistic about the outcome of the war on terror. What’s needed, he says, is a reprise of FDR’s "fear itself" speech.
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"Reconciliation is possible" between science and faith, though it will mean defining the latter by its moral truths and not its supernatural claims.
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The "Evolution of God" author weighs the argument that human moral progress might depend on abandoning religion.
Jason Epstein thought of Amazon before Jeff Bezos. Or at least, he understood the concept: the necessity, and power, of making the world’s backlist available at all times. Epstein’s uniquely […]
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As people of different faiths find cooperation more beneficial than war, a kind of secular salvation may be possible.
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As Christianity progressed, Christ’s moral teachings became sanitized and polished. Robert Wright thinks that’s probably a good thing.
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As the "Evolution of God" author explains, the phenomenon called religion grew out of early human biology and strategy. But can we claim that certain faiths have "evolved" more since?
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A conversation with the author of "The Evolution of God."
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Journalists may one day have a Saint among their ranks: the Roman Catholic church recently announced that the late Spanish journalist Manuel Lozano Garrido will be beatified this June, making […]
People who think that journalist Ryszard Kapuściński was a liar are missing the point, writes one Guardian blogger, who says there is no sharp frontier between literature and reporting.
While the rest of the world is shuddering at the debt pile mounting up on its balance sheets India is the elephant in the room as one of the few regions to have had a “good crisis.”
Scientologists defied copyright law for their latest promotional video, using clips from “Star Wars”, “Braveheart” and “Independence Day” to fire up its Las Vegas staff.
Four decades after the publication of Germaine Greer’s seminal feminist work “The Female Eunuch,” it has provoked an astonishing attack by a fellow Australian writer Louis Nowra.
It’s the perfect pairing, writes Salon: Sarah Palin and Jay Leno, who share a common foe in David Letterman, teamed up to deliver a blow to his ratings on Tuesday night.
The son of the founder of the Palestinian military group Hamas has admitted to spying for Israel for a decade, feeding information about Hamas’ terrorist plots to Israel’s Shin Bet.
Tut tut Nicolas Chartier, producer of Oscar nominated film ‘Hurt Locker, whose scathing emails about other nominees have landed him in hot water and banned from the awards.
Today Obama is due to make remarks indicating a willingness to work with the Republicans on some areas in exchange for their support in getting the health care reform bill passed.