The Great Delusion About The Great Books Curriculum

Why Carl Sagan's 1995 book 'The Demon-Haunted World' remains essential reading for critical thinkers today

Beautifully written, this guide to distinguishing between truth, misinformation and lies, first published in 1995, remains an essential read

What Does Self-Knowledge Look Like? Reading Marcus Aurelius

The Meditations of Roman emperor Marcus Aurelius are perhaps the best-selling self-help book of all time. Rooted in the rational philosophy

"Reactionary Worldbuilding" Examines How Speculative Fiction Fuels Political Conspiracies from Ayn Rand to QAnon

From Ayn Rand to QAnon, a new anthology explores how reactionary world-building becomes reactionary world-making.

Critique of Jonathan Haidt's "The Anxious Generation" Questions Scientific Rigor of Social Media Claims

Only 22 of the 476 studies in "The Anxious Generation" contain data on either heavy social media use or serious mental issues among adolesce

Nancy Worth and Irene Hardill (eds.) (2015). Researching the Lifecourse. Critical Reflections from the Social Sciences. Bristol: Policy Press, 254 pp. ISBN 978 1 4473 1752 4 (hardcover)

How liberal Law School professors fueled rise of Federalist Society

New book traces broad campaign to combat what organizers viewed as takeover of nation’s legal system by forces of ‘radical’ liberalism