The View from This Seat

While not exactly a household name, Fred T. Korematsu (born 100 years ago today, on January 30, 1919) is becoming increasingly recognized a...

It has already been nearly 15 years since I started writing Fed Up with Fundamentalism , which has been out of print for some time now. Ev...

Hell is a topic that produces a lot of heated debate. Whether or not Hell is a place of eternal torment has recently been a hot topic at So...

Can differences of degree become so great that they become differences of kind? I recall that issue being discussed long ago when I was in g...

Hayashi Kakujō is the chief priest of the widely known Nanzōin Temple on the outskirts of Fukuoka City, Japan. I had the pleasure of becomi...

As I post this first blog article of the new year, the U.S. government remains partially shut down. The issue at stake, as you know, is the...

The Economist is a premier magazine which has been published continuously for 175 years now. Each year in December it publishes an issue ab...