Atheist Ethicist

One of the recurring themes in this blog has been the relationship between meaning and marketing. I wrote about it most recently in discussi...

Congress is seeking to pass a non-binding resolution that identifies events in the former Ottoman Empire (now Turkey) in 1915-1917 a ‘genoci...

I have spent the past week discussing some of the ideas that Sam Harris raised in his controversial speech before the Atheist Alliance Inter...

I have recently written about how moral outrage is the appropriate response to what I have called The Hitler and Stalin Cliche . This invol...

Yesterday’s posting on the appropriateness of moral outrage as a response to the Hitler and Stalin Cliché brought up the question of censors...

I regret that this posting is turning up on a Saturday, since Saturdays tend to be light traffic days. This is a post that I particularly st...

Two days ago I criticized an aspect of Sam Harris’ speech before the Atheist Alliance International conference as being naïve – the idea tha...

The Constitution of the United States cannot defend itself. It exists only so long as there are enough people to stand up for it. I wonder...

Though apparently not the most warmly received talk at the Atheist Alliance conference, Sam Harris’ speech suggesting that we do away with t...

Bruce Taylor wrote an article titled, “Anti-Theists Avoid Morality Question” that contains the old argument that an atheist (like me) canno...

Eenauk has presented me with another question. Why are desires so important? On one level they are important by definition: we do, after a...

A member of the studio audience, eenauk, made a comment recently on a subject that I was surprised to discover I had not yet talked about in...