11/12021--The process of creating an author website for the release of The Universe Is on Our Side: Restoring Faith in American Public Life...

 10/13/2021--This week's column in the Pennsylvania Capital-Star.

 10/8/2021--The subject was the potential of the crisis in the liberal arts and public life to spark renewal in America. Watch the lecture h...

 10/3/2021--Last week, the Pennsylvania Capital-Star published a response to my column criticizing the National Vote Compact, from Brock H...

 9/28/2021--Both parties have shown themselves irresponsible and partisan. How will I vote in the November Supreme Court race in Pennsylvani...

 9/20/2021--Last week was obviously too busy. I failed to list here two columns that came out.  One was on Sunday, 9/12, in the Pittsburgh P...

 9/16/2021--On this day of Yom Kippur, the Day of Atonement, we secularists should ask, how do we find forgiveness? Yes, we can ask the pers...

 9/11/2021--With the departure from Afghanistan, 9/11 has finally ended. During these twenty years we have lost a great deal. America is div...

 9/10/2021--It came to me today, and I cannot further develop it right now, that in our efforts to build secular civilization--our great wor...

9/2/2021--This week's column in the Pennsylvania Capital-Star. It was not clear until 2020 just how bad this particular attempt to deal...

8/20/2021--Read the column here .

8/15/2021-- In 2019, I published a book review of three books in the Tulsa Law Review. These books were all about the divisions in American ...

8/14/2021—Lale Gul is a young Dutch novelist who has broken with the traditions of her Turkish immigrant family and has written a fictional ...

8/5/2021—Tuesday’s column in the Pennsylvania Capital-Star about Tahmima Anam’s novel, The Startup Wife, shared the novel’s joke about p...

 8/3/2021--This week's column in the Pennsylvania Capital-Star is about Tahmima Anam's new novel, The Startup Wife, and what the bo...

 7/31/2021--I am sympathetic, more so than most, to the vaccine reactions. According to a recent New York Times story , the Delta variant of...

 7/27/2021--Another matter that went unmentioned in the last two weeks on this blog is that my book, The Universe Is on Our Side: Restoring ...

 7/27/2021--I have been off for over a week due to family visiting. Last week's column concerned the retirement of Justice Stephen Brey...

7/10/2021--I am shopping around an article about how to raise a secular or a religious child. The basic idea goes to consistency and commitm...

 7/8/2021--this week's column in the Pennsylvania Capital-Star.

 7/5/2021--Ross Douthat wrote a column for the New York Times on April 4, 2021 that is arguably hthe best and most important he ever wrote....

 7/4/2021--Happy Fourth of July to everyone--a lot better than last year. I want to share with my readers the opening of a section of Chapte...