In the August 4th edition of this newspaper Julianna Young wrote an opinion piece entitled “Prop 1 could threaten religious freedom.” She desc…

We, like all animals, have an instinctive urge to stay alive, and that’s easily explained. Evolutionary forces dictate that any species that l…

We are annoyed by people who act as though they are better than others, including those who believe that their skin color is the source of the…

Appraisals of Trump’s various high-level appointees have been abundant, detailed and revealing, yet there’s one of those appointees who has be…

Any proposal for serious social or economic change will contain two lists of assertions: one will concern the status quo and its alleged fault…

My premise, with regard to the origins and functions of moral systems (ethical systems, if you prefer), has always been that they are the resu…

Two women, one from Idaho, the other from West Virginia, appeared before the U.S. Supreme Court and asked it to declare unconstitutional the l…

I’ve always regarded the world’s religions as cultural products, by which I mean artifacts of human inventiveness. As such, religions bear the…

Trump campaigned for his second term with the promise that he would return this country to its former greatness, but what he meant by that was…

If you ask that question to the person behind the check-out counter at the grocery store, the answer is easy to come by: you owe whatever the …