The Scandal of Atheism
Brush drawing of German philospher Martin Heidegger, made by Herbert Wetterauer, after a photo by Fritz Eschen What is the meaning of life? Atheists are facing a grave scandal today that threatens the very roots of atheism: they can't answer this question. But it's...
One Catholic Priest Destroyed the Entire Mayan Written Language
The New York Times described the decipherment of the Maya hieroglyphs as "one of the great stories of twentieth century scientific discovery." Tragically, this decipherment was only necessary because of a one-man Spanish Inquisition, a deliberate, decades-long...
QAnon’s Implosion: Boringly Predictable to Psychologists
Conspiracy-theory cults are so common that there’s actually a special branch of psychology to study them. And it turns out these cults are boringly predictable to psychologists.