In April 2008, I wrote that British journalists interpret “freedom of the press” to mean that they can make up anything they want and publish it as fact in British newspapers.  Now another evolutionary psychologist has learned the lesson the hard way. Read More

Being a Muslim in today’s world is unlike being anything else. It’s an all-encompassing, all-consuming identity. Read More

In the partisan debate on the current health care reform in Congress, nobody on either side seems to question the underlying assumption that basic health care is a right, not a privilege. But why is health care a right? Read More

In an earlier review of fellow PT blogger Susan Pinker’s book The Sexual Paradox:  Troubled Boys, Gifted Girls and the Real Difference Between the Sexes, we ponder why it is that so many highly successful women experience the “imposter syndrome. Read More