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A recent Supreme Court ruling that denies a Christian college organization access to campus facilities violates the First Amendment, says Dennis Byrne at the Chicago Tribune.
"Repeal of the estate tax imposes significant costs on the taxpaying public and promotes concentrations of wealth that harm our democracy," says a Boston College law professor.
Robert Wright says that the Internet is scattering our brains, sacrificing individual coherence for a superorganism where people are but single cells of a greater, electronic being.
Queen Elizabeth II is here, and today she spoke about peace. She said, in her speech at the United Nations, “the waging of peace is the hardest form of leadership […]
I'm nearly done filming a second season of "SCI-FI Science: Physics of the Impossible" on The Science Channel. In this exciting new series, I've identified 12 more familiar science-fiction movie, […]
As the Queen addresses the United Nations General Assembly in New York, and pays her respects to those – including sixty three Britons – who lost their lives in the […]
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It can be tough, especially with young kids, because people understand atheism so poorly.
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Magic goes to eleborate lengths to make something look one way that's really another. Penn and Teller thought it would be funny to do a magic trick that accomplished reality.
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This trick, which they debuted on Saturday Night Live in 1986, put an unexpected twist on Houdini’s classic water tank escape.
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Who needs drugs or alcohol when you have magic? Penn Jillette decided drugs were not for him when he was 14 years old and he saw very smart people abusing […]
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Penn says his tolerance for crazy people "is I think as high a tolerance as you're ever going to find."
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The magician explains his libertarian beliefs and why President Obama should be "questioned and beat up."
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Religion can cause "good people to do bad things," but Penn Jillette gets along better with fundamentalists than with liberal Christians who preach easy tolerance.
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Author and magician Penn Jillette explains how his studiousness as a teenager led to his becoming an atheist.
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"Same way Kennedy prepared for his debates: with a blow job and a cup of coffee," jokes the magician.
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When the Penn watches televised magic, he has "a very real sense" that he's watching different takes stuck together.
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"Damn similar to how it is now," says Penn.
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Penn and long-time partner Teller are best friends, but their relationship is based on respect rather than love.
Ten people were arrested in the suburbs of New York, Boston, and northern Virginia last week, accused of being part of an elaborate Russian spy ring. According to the New […]