"Openly expressing your aversion to Marxism from behind the Iron Curtain would have meant social opprobrium at best—bu…"

"Even after the Cold War ended and most of the world’s communist regimes collapsed, biting the nourishing hand of indu…"

"We should cherish the naysayers. The more mud they fling, the better. Anti-capitalists, postmodern relativists, and P…"

"In fact, non-Westerners like Ayaan Hirsi Ali are often especially appreciative of the blessings of liberal democracy …"

"The many fabrications and distortions in the genocide case against Israel are evidence of something different from ra…"

"Many religious apologists argue that explaining the evolutionary roots of belief does nothing to undermine God’s exis…"

"Most people intuitively grasp the basic rules of logic and probability—we wouldn’t have survived otherwise. Human rea…"

"An illusion will only make you happy if you’re fully under its spell, and blissfully unaware of it."

"According to scholars like Ara Norenzayan and Joe Henrich, belief in moralizing Big Gods has fostered pro-sociality a…"

"Moreover, in evolutionary accounts of religion there’s always a flipside to pro-sociality: being friendly to “us” als…"