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New landmark research of 101,000 Americans shows stark religious and ethnic changes.

In an exhibition currently at the Park Avenue Armory in New York City, a crane reaches into a mountain of clothes and pulls out at random a selection of shirts, […]

Wizbang innovations capture the public’s imagination, but thoughtful, incremental development is often more valuable to those in need.

Brands manufacture meaning through consensus; people must strive to create their own.

Black cat crossed your path?

Using the Book of Mormon as a sacred but ambiguous atlas, the Latter-day Saints have been looking for the lost city of Zarahemla for decades.

In hell, we assume a position of moral superiority, looking down over the sinners and the poor decisions that led them to this wretched place. In heaven, Dante is looking down upon us.

For the ancients, hospitality was an inviolable law enforced by gods and priests and anyone else with the power to make you pay dearly for mistreating a stranger.

The Inglehart-Welzel World Cultural map replaces geographic accuracy with closeness in terms of values.

Darwin was right again—sort of.

To get a sense of faraway places, these 'atlases' let the locals give you their perspective.

Now an insult, 'cretin' was the medical term for a debilitating disease endemic in the Alps until the early 20th century.

Celebrity scientists like Donna Strickland are showing that science & faith co-exist just fine.

Research suggests that people with depression find sad music calming — or even uplifting.

Unwind the mind with these thought-provoking Alan Watts quotes.

Thousands of churches are left behind every year in America.

Why do people distrust atheists? And are they right to do so?

Do you enjoy 'non-traditional sexual relationships'? Then mind where you travel.

Single people have their own day to celebrate love.

The U.S. State Department’s “Countries of Concern" include North Korea, Myanmar, and more. But how close is America itself to earning a place on the list? 

Do we really care about privacy? An interview with Manoush Zomorodi, host of WNYC's Note to Self, about The Privacy Paradox campaign. She discusses an ethical code needed for technologists, why the typical ad-based business model online is not sustainable, and why it's time for internet users to be "digitally woke."  

We can all rattle off a few Greek philosophers to win a trivia prize, but how many Golden Age philosophers are you familiar with? Here's a primer.

The author of The Purpose Driven Life has a theory about why Paris happened: We haven't accepted Jesus. 

An interesting point in case are the twin maps of Africa shown here, one of the spread of Islam, the other the spread of AIDS. Beware of the map that is too straightforward and simple.

If Flannery O’Connor somehow birthed the love child of Sid Vicious, she might end up sounding like novelist Nell Zink. Equal parts Southern Gothic’s grotesquely twisted charm and punk and alternative music’s insiderish anti-establishmentism, Zink’s second novel Mislaid will disorient you until you let it delight you. Zink’s mix — which I’ll call Southern Gothic Punk — might be an acquired taste, but a taste well worth experiencing if only to break out of the contemporary rut of MFA-programed, sound-alike fiction that’s become the bubblegum pop of today’s literature.

Jules Verne used the failed project as inspiration for his last adventure novel

Last week was a big one for assumptions. There was Wolf Blitzer asking an Oklahoma tornado survivor if she was thankful that the Lord spared her life. Then that brief, […]

So what young conservative blogger/essayist would you recommend to challenge those who believe they’re smarter than every conservative in the world?  Well, SAM GOLDMAN. Sam’s not the only one by […]

“Once you are a conscious being you have no choice but to be a change agent,” South African anti-apartheid heroine and academic Dr. Mamphela Ramphele told Charlie Rose—a rare male […]

The Holocaust is a touchy subject anywhere on earth, but touchiest at the capitol of the country where “The Final Solution” began. Germany and its capitol, Berlin, still struggle with […]