Religion
The Spook Racket
Magicians Todd Robbins and Teller take on the supposedly supernatural in their bloody off-Broadway sensation Play Dead
Theocracy in America
Should we be more worried about radical Islamists or Christian fundamentalists?
Bollywood vs. Bin Laden
The soft power of Indian films takes a hard line against extremism.
Islam and the Intolerance Problem
Comparing the attack on Gabrielle Giffords with the murder of a Pakistani politician
Still Rotten
Five years after the "cartoon crisis," the precarious state of free speech in Denmark
The Eleventh Commandment: Punish Free Riders
Religion and the evolutionary origin of cooperation
Forced to Be Free
What anti-TV crusades, the campaign against the "Ground Zero mosque," and Ayn Rand's "intellectual heir" have in common with the reform movements of the antebellum era
From Yuck to Yippee!
What this year's Nobel Prize for a test tube baby pioneer tells us about the moral endorsement of technology.
Scary Monsters
The growth of government threatens freedom much more than mosque-building Muslims do.