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Dec 28, 2015 — Robert Wright & Murtaza Hussain
The new normal for American Muslims
Why Muslim women bear the brunt of Islamophobia
Murtaza calls
The Atlantic
‘s big ISIS piece “shallow nonsense”
How Saudi Arabia fueled a “bad reformation” of Islam
A “Muslim loser with a gun” can hurt millions
What being a Muslim means to Murtaza
Dec 27, 2015 — Robert Wright & John Horgan
John’s new old book,
The End of Science
How grand is the unified theory, really?
Cancer, brain lasers, and other things that matter
Mind-blowing potential of dark energy and dark matter
The mind-body problem
Will science shed any new light on basic philosophical questions?
Dec 24, 2015 — Robert Wright & Michael Brendan Dougherty
Why conservative Catholic Michael likes the New Atheists
Finding strength and unity in Scripture
What’s the true meaning of Christmas?
Michael: Catholic ritual defines my religion
Michael’s Irish heritage and Bob’s West Texas roots
How a fear of Hell affects everyday life
Dec 19, 2015 — Robert Wright & Lawrence Krauss
Lawrence on religion’s “most immoral” aspect
A defense of giving offense
Why is there something rather than nothing?
Bob accuses Lawrence of avoiding the key question
Debating whether evolution has directionality
Can science fill religion’s place in people’s lives?
Dec 18, 2015 — Robert Wright & Alexander Wolff
Alex’s new book,
The Audacity of Hoop
How basketball shaped Obama, personally and politically
The significance of Obama’s move to golf
Life lessons from playing pickup
A beautiful merging of individual and collective goals
The San Antonio Spurs as a model of global cooperation
Dec 15, 2015 — Robert Wright & Francis Fukuyama
Revisiting Frank’s “End of History” thesis
Trump, China, and the threat of illiberal democracy
Frank: The singularity is an “idiotic” idea
Should we fear homemade eugenics?
Why Americans need to improve their moral imaginations
Does religion unite more than it divides?
Dec 13, 2015 — Robert Wright & Donald Hoffman
Natural selection doesn’t build brains to see the truth
How perception is like a graphical computer interface
Don’s theory: It’s consciousness all the way down
Is there a chicken-and-egg problem with this theory?
Don describes his consciousness formula, sans math (phew)
With this theory, life is more interesting—and painful
Dec 12, 2015 — Robert Wright & Pamela Cooper-White
Clergy as front-line therapists for parishioners
Personal guilt about God’s judgment
Using faith to counter a traumatic religious upbringing
Neoliberal capitalism and its discontents
A psychological reading of the Christian Trinity
Are humans making spiritual progress?
Dec 7, 2015 — Philip Menchaca & Wahida Young
An introduction to Universal Sufism
“A path, not a religion”
Incorporating worship practices from different faiths
Wahida’s religious community, The Abode of The Message
How Wahida came to Universal Sufism
The Universal Sufi teaching the world most needs now
Dec 4, 2015 — David Bryce Yaden & Roy Hamilton
Roy explains non-invasive brain stimulation
Assessing the safety of this technology
Can brain stimulation make you smarter?
Does increasing memory decrease creativity?
The possibility of unlocking savant-like abilities
An ethical question about cognitive enhancement
Dec 2, 2015 — Philip Menchaca & Ash Yezuita
Meet Ash, a practicing Norse Pagan
The Norse gods, creation story, afterlife—and trolls!
Are these beliefs metaphoric or literal?
Ash’s spiritual path from atheism to Paganism
Ragnarök and accepting chaos as a part of life
Why Norse Paganism appeals to some white supremacists
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