What Feminism Actually Asks of Me
The thing nobody tells you about becoming a feminist as a man is that the day-to-day reality…
PhilosophyA collection of 15 posts
Who I Am, Part Two: Why I’m a Feminist, and Why You Probably Should Be Too
There’s a particular kind of man who will tell you, with some pride, that he is not…
Why “Can God Create a Stone So Heavy He Can’t Lift It?” Is a Bad Argument
The problem with the argument is that theists can easily get out of it. They can simply claim that omnipotence does not mean a being can do EVERYTHING. Omnipotence means that a being can do anything logically possible.
Who I Am, Part One: Straight, White, Male
I’ve been thinking lately about how many people seem to hold their beliefs the way you’d hold…
Absence of evidence is not evidence of absence … Or is it?
You have probably encountered this slogan in an online debate, usually deployed with the air of someone…
A Warning About the Problem of Evil: Handle With Care
Few arguments in the atheist’s toolkit are as famous — or as frequently misused — as Epicurus’…
Democracy on the Brink: Why Politics, Not Religion, Is Now the Biggest Threat to Our World
When I wrote about this topic years ago, I argued that religion was a virus of the mind, but that politics was the bigger problem — that divisions driven by tribal political loyalty were doing more damage to the world than any church. I still believe the first half. I was wildly, embarrassingly optimistic about the second.