Like the crack in the Liberty Bell, a symbol of America’s founding idea, a crack in American society remains as a symbol of its founding sin

It took me a couple of seconds to get Stephen Colbert’s joke line, “I don’t see race” when I first heard it. In the USA, the joke works because no one can se...

Philosophy Talks. History Walks. As a political activist and someone who trains others in “the art of political persuasion”, I teach a good deal of psycholog...

Since the #MeToo phenomenon hit, I have started asking my female friends directly about their everyday experiences with men. For example, what proportion of ...

Last month, I did something I’d done only once before: I went to a range and shot some guns. Lots of guns. All shapes, ages and sizes. This is a very strange...