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Republican presidential candidate Ben Carson’s theory about the origins of the Egyptian pyramids has been widely mocked in the media. Carson has typically been characterized as an anti-intellectual…

Update: According to CNN, “the French air force carried out bombing missions on ISIS targets in Raqqa, Syria, for a second day in a row. France is retaliating against Islamist extremist terror attacks…

I like to give my friends a pop quiz: what is the only public high school district in the country with a mandatory course in world religions? First they wonder aloud whether or not it is even legal to…

Mormon Church: Policies Targeting Same-Sex Couples, Children Spark Mass Exodus We wrote in the last recap about the Mormon Church’s new policy declaring married same-sex couples apostates and banning…

In the months since the Supreme Court’s decision to make marriage equality the law, conservative Christian thinkers have followed two tracks. On the one hand, writers like Rod Dreher and Ross Douthat…

This week’s Republican presidential debate began with a visual homage to Abraham Lincoln and Theodore Roosevelt. It continued with unanimous candidate endorsement of small government and deregulation-…

Archaeologists say that the pyramids were used to store dead pharaohs. Ben Carson thinks that the pyramids were used to store grain. Carson is wrong. But to simply point out that he’s wrong is to miss…

Anyone who saw last year’s standout documentary, Jesse Moss’ The Overnighters, probably noted a brief, sober coda to the story: one of the film’s subjects, Keith Graves, was recently convicted of sex…

When we were kids growing up in the Mormon Church, my brother’s best friend Tony, who wasn’t Mormon, used to like to come along with us. When my brother turned eight, he and the others prepared for…

Social media has made possible a new global distribution of cognitive ephemera. We are tweeting 6,000 times per second—and most of it is garbage. And while social media has facilitated powerful forms…