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Neurotheology, a Bridge Between Religion and Science0
- Culture, Featured, Philosophy, Religion, Science
- September 11, 2026
An emerging field of psychology is recognizing the profound link among religious experience, the brain, and mental health. It’s called “neurotheology,” a multidisciplinary field that studies the relations between religion and the human brain. “Neurotheology is a two-way street so that it is not just neuroscience studying religion or religion commenting on neuroscience,” said Dr. Andrew Newberg, a neuroscientist and pioneer in the field, in an
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Plato’s Cave Was About Us, Not Others0
- Culture, Featured, Philosophy
- September 11, 2026
Often the analogy of Plato’s Cave is told with the teller standing outside, basking in the sun. Meanwhile, everyone else is left inside, still seeing shadows on the wall. We naturally make a divide: the other country, the other party, the other culture, the other church, the other family – they are always the prisoners.
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Mamas, Don’t Let Your Daughters Grow Up to Be Wokesters0
Recent events reveal more women who are waking up and rejecting woke feminism, even though that doesn’t always seem to be the case on the surface. Consider Lindsay Clancy, for instance, who was on trial for allegedly strangling her three young children. The case resulted in a mistrial, on account of one juror, one of
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Why Trump’s Stay-at-Home Mom Subsidy Plan Is Hitting a Nerve0
President Donald Trump is reportedly considering a plan to offer a $9,000 benefit to families with one parent staying home to raise their children. Putting aside the economic pros or cons of this proposal, the reaction to it from opponents on the right and the left says a lot about how society views the homemaker.
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Why It’s So Important That Our Beliefs About Reality Are Accurate0
- Featured, Philosophy
- September 9, 2026
Often the most difficult questions to actually answer are the simplest ones to ask. We can easily answer the question, “What is a hammer?” by simply referring to the materials, the shape, and the purpose of the hammer. It gets slightly more difficult, however, when asking a question like, “What is justice?” or “What is
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How Erasing History and ‘Going No-Contact’ Are Related0
In the late 20th century, the “disappeared” referred to citizens, mostly in Latin America, who were arrested and murdered or imprisoned without due process or trial. The state, or in some cases terrorist groups or drug cartels, would then deny any knowledge of these individuals to their friends and families. They simply vanished. We don’t
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Shakespeare’s 3 ‘Hot Takes’ for a Nation in Troubled Times0
- Culture, Featured, Literature
- September 8, 2026
There’s a lot of craziness in the news right now – when isn’t there? – between foreign policy and Iran, endless left/right political bickering and party infighting, economy woes, new conspiracy theories, and highly publicized murder trials. Adding to the heaviness is every political pundit’s “hot take.” Most Americans are tired of it, quite frankly.
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The Limitless Fun of the Stay-At-Home Mom0
The Lindsay Clancy murder trial has revealed what a low opinion of motherhood many people have. Clancy pleaded not guilty to murdering her three children, claiming to be merely a depressed woman suffering from a psychosis. Throughout the trial, many women have claimed that such a state is inevitable in the misery of motherhood and
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MIT Admits AI Can Finish Any Undergrad Assignment. Now What?0
When I graduated from college in 2016, the mind-numbingly advanced technologies currently on offer to today’s undergraduate students simply weren’t available. I had to hunt through books and navigate innumerable online articles to find a single quote needed for an assignment. Sometimes this research would take days, sometimes weeks. That time, however recent it may
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