Letter to the Editor Spurs Opiate Addictions

In his book Dreamland, journalist Sam Quinones points to one paragraph of false information that helped pave the way for the surge in addicts to the highly ...

Half-Truths We Accept as Facts

An article on NPR's (National Public Radio's) website lists 12 common half-truths that many of us have accepted as facts. For instance, various ...

Lady Gaga Admits Hiding Lies in the Midst of Truth

In an interview with New York Magazine, Lady Gaga said,

What I've discovered is that in art, as in music, there's a lot of truth—and then there's ...

New Age Author Claims Angels Will Meet Our Needs

Historian Joseph Loconte notes that many people today are still obsessed with angels, particularly angelic beings who seem tailor-made to meet our every ...

The Core Beliefs of America's "Spiritual but Not Religious" Teachers

In his book Bad Religion, Ross Douthat examines the core beliefs of America's wave of "spiritual but not religious" teachers such as Deepak Chopra, James ...

Elizabeth Gilbert—a "Religious Pilgrim" for Our Times

New York Times columnist Ross Douthat claims that if there's a representative "religious pilgrim" for our post-Christian times, it's probably Elizabeth ...

Nobel Prize Winner Says Humans Don't Think Well

He's a very smart man who knows a lot about human intelligence. He's a brilliant psychologist and a Nobel-prize winning economist. Early in his career, ...

The Gentle Seduction of Temptation

In his book Tempted and Tried Russell Moore recounts an NPR program about a scientist named Temple Grandin who is researching new ways to gently kill ...

Living by Values That Dismantle Life

Being lost is living by a set of values that systematically dismantles your life.

—Unknown source

G.K. Chesterton on the Truth About Fallacies

Fallacies do not cease to be fallacies because they become fashions.

—G.K. Chesterton, English writer (1874-1936)