So... I was a Christian musician for many years, and was a critic of its music industry for most of those years. I am also a student of...

Rambo Jesus isn’t new; he has long since ousted the Hippie Jesus I grew up with in the Evangelical gestalt, parading on horseback with a...

Much has been written – most of it by me, I think – of the redolent optimism and lofty ethics of Star Trek, and how healthy and nurturing...

IT WAS CHRISTMAS 1976. My family had just moved from one Midwestern town to another, and we’d been there long enough that I’d started a...

Sex robots are already here, and they will rapidly grow more Stepford-like. In the film, they are designed to be indistinguishable from...

When I was younger, I loved a comic book called The Legion of Super-Heroes. These weren’t just any super-heroes; they were a group of...

Many of Robert Heinlein’s later books are, to our chagrin, little more than monotone sociopolitical tracts spewing his personal ideology...

When I was a boy, grade-school-age, discovering Batman for the first time, I found his enemies thrilling. Out front was, of course, the...

Author Robert Fulghum once wrote that Jimmy Carter wasn’t exactly a great president, but that he was hands-down the best ex-president...

AI is barreling toward us like a comet, burning with the heat of the sun and too massive to contemplate. It is growing exponentially,...

They are long-established clichés: conservatives, according to liberals, are heartless – while liberals, according to conservatives, are...

Behavioral professionals have been quick to note that today, three-plus years into the Covid-19 pandemic, most people are experiencing...

I was never a Sylvester Stallone fan. I saw the Rocky movies and Rambo movies – some of them, anyway – and I didn’t find them...

I grew up in a very conservative clan in a very conservative community in a Midwestern state that has become, over the decades, as red as...

Bob Dylan stands in the role of rock’s resident philosopher – or he did, back in the Sixties. No surprise, then, that both John and Paul...

To: My old far-right conservative friends Re: Your Culture War Dear old friends! I write to you today from a position of great confusion,...

Just when I thought I was out, they pull me back in! I’ve spent decades now immersed in the Chinese Room. I’ve argued it endlessly with...

As Ronald Reagan was being sworn in, I took up a post at my campus paper, the University of Kentucky Kernel, as its editorial editor....

Lt. Reginald Barclay is a diagnostic engineer on Geordi LaForge’s staff, aboard Picard’s Enterprise. Awkward and nebbishy, he is...

I grew up in a Fundamentalist Christian world, an extended community of conservative middle-class families that took very seriously the...