As usual, John Brockman and Edge have come up with an annual question that’s sure to generate some fascinating answers.…
Author Jacques Rousseau
One of my final tasks for the year just ended was to write a test on the Civil Union Act,…
Yesterday, I was alerted to a peculiar piece on the Huffington Post that describes an ex-pastor’s plan to live as…
When I tweeted the negative sentiment below, about the author of a book on how to ‘treat’ your toddler with…
On hearing that Muslim staff at the UK supermarket chain Marks & Spencer could now refuse to sell pork and…
On December 3, the Free Society Institute (the secular humanist NPO that I founded here in South Africa) held their…
Otto von Bismarck observed that politics is “the art of the possible”, but the statement holds true in many more…
As I remarked in a post on the day after Mr. Mandela’s death, his value to South Africa (in particular)…
On International Human Rights Day in 2012, the International Humanist and Ethical Union (IHEU) published their inaugural “Freedom of Thought…
The Free Society Institute (FSI) hopes to avoid the pitfalls of restrictive labels such as “atheist”, “freethinker”, “skeptic” and the…