Topic: Beliefs & Values

Beyond belief

Unreason, like the poor, will always be with us. But why does quackery survive when science is making life better?

Cosmopolitans

It’s not just me, you and everyone we know. Citizens of the world have moral obligations to a wider circle of humanity

Godless yet good

There's something in religious tradition that helps people be ethical. But it isn't actually their belief in God

Mortal remains

The dead are no longer welcome at their own funerals. So how can the living send them on their way?

The mask falls

Hunter gatherers may have very egalitarian societies, but evolution says the human love of status runs deeper