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Existential Comfort Without God
Can natural explanations to life’s big questions be as consoling as religious ones?
The Transcendence of Tantric Sex
A psychologist argues science can take a lesson from ritual about how to heal.
The Economic Case for Vaccine Passports
Requiring vaccine passports would not violate any individual rights that a well-ordered society would choose to defend.
The Math That Says Egalitarianism Is Possible
You don’t have to be entirely pessimistic about the future of wealth inequality.
The Fine Line Between Reality and Imaginary
We do not see things as they are. We see them as we are.
Life Always Wins. Follow Me
A botanist is introduced to escapees from the atomic bomb in Hiroshima.
Reports of a Baleful Internet Are Greatly Exaggerated
Our digital technologies can in fact be cognitive aids.


