John Milton, an English poet, who also wrote “Paradise Lost,” published Sonnet XIX, “On His Blindness” in 1673. His opening ...

Visual representation of the framework for how the scale and distance afforded by the internet distorts our evolved reactions for compassion for victims and punishment of transgressors in moral ...

Many religious folks argue that while science can explain much of the natural world, some issues are simply outside of the scientific realm, the classic example of which would be morality. The late ...

Recently, I was talking to a friend, a passionate liberal, about some evolutionary ideas not too distant from the subject of this blog when I realized that she was silently fuming. She left the house ...