Freedom is the most radically utopian ideal of all. What is freedom? Politically, freedom is the absence of coercion. Psychologically, freedom is the ability to consistently follow reason and one's own values wherever they may lead. What is radicalism? Radicalism is uncompromising adherence to an...
What do Richard Dawkins, Christopher Hitchens, and Gore Vidal all have in common? They're all atheists and I've never never seen anything by them in print where they say a nice thing about anyone. Bizarely enough, all the atheists I've ever personally met are rather nice and tolerant. However...
A copule years ago a book was published called The Lucifer Effect . It recorded a long-running experiment at Stanford University where some students were "prison guards" and other students were "inmates." To make a long storty short, the gaurds basically went power mad and a mini...