I am one of the few people I know of who has argued in print that torture may be an ethical necessity in our war on terror.

It is still fashionable to believe that how you organize yourself religiously in this life may matter for eternity. Unless we can erode the prestige of that kind of thinking, we're not going to be able to undermine these divisions in our world.

It is also true that the less competent a person is in a given domain, the more he will tend to overestimate his abilities. This often produces an ugly marriage of confidence and ignorance that is very difficult to correct for.

It is time that scientists and other public intellectuals observed that the contest between faith and reason is zero-sum.

The faith of religion is belief on insufficient evidence.

All civilized nations must unite in condemnation of a theology that now threatens to destabilize much of the earth.

False encouragement is a kind of theft: it steals time, energy, and motivation a person could put toward some other purpose.