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...

Part of the fun of Star Trek, for me, is how it teases the futurist in me. When I was a kid, I tried to figure out how the Transporter...

The growing hubbub over ChatGPT, a truly landmark AI that is swiftly upgrading public perception of what AI is and what its advent means,...

I grew up in a very insular community in the American Midwest. And when I say insular community, I don’t mean an isolated or standoffish...

“May we together become greater than the sum of both of us.” ~Surak Few attributes of the Star Trek universe stand out as starkly as its...

What constitutes moral behavior for a humanist? First, we note that many on the outside looking in believe that humanism and morality are...

What is the humanist response when two courses of action are available, and both involve a negative outcome? How is the humanist to...

Those of us who are deeply into Star Trek are well-acquainted with the Mirror Universe, a kind of alternate reality that looks almost...

Every so often, a ridiculous event in the media will rise above the endless river of absurdity and spectacle in such a way as to showcase...

Many are the modes of linguistic expression that brighten the human experience, from the evocative stirrings of sublime poetry to the...

Gotta love Stanley Kubrick, right? Iconic filmmaker, he should be on everyone’s Top 10 list. Dr. Strangelove... 2001... A Clockwork...

I can’t remember a time in my life when the subject of health care wasn’t a hot potato. And I’ve had the dubious distinction of having...

“Sometimes the old ways are best,” Moneypenny tells Bond in Casino Royale, as she proceeds to shave him with an old-school straight...

No one who knows me well could ever imagine my becoming a conservative, or that I ever was one. Ironically, most of my extended family...

Almost 100 years ago, the US government evolved. After many decades of business-focused governance, wherein lawmakers steered clear of...