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• Camp Atheism

  According to the UK newspaper The Guardian, Richard Dawkins is helping to fund an atheist summer camp for children.  No kidding.  Imagi...

• "The Most Important Decision of My Life"?

  A couple of days ago, I saw a television commercial for Bosley Hair Restoration, a product that purports to do what the name suggests.  As is often the case with such commercials, it was heavy on personal testimonies.  You know, the "before" and "aft...

• Remembering Harry Patch

  On July 25th, Harry Patch, Britain’s last survivor of the Great War, died at age 111.  Having survived the slaughter at Passchendaele where some 850,000 men fell, Private Patch saw the worst of that senseless conflict.  Fighting against him in that...

• What If...

  Viewed from the safe perspective of history, many events seem inevitable.  Consider, for example, such epochs as the fall of the Roman Empire, the Norman Conquest, and the American Revolution—might these history-defining moments have turned out diff...

• The Power of the Tongue

  Recently I have had good reason to reflect upon the capacity of people to destroy one another. I am not referring to war, murder, poverty, or anything of that nature, although human beings certainly can and do bring ruin upon their fellow man in those ...