Sam Harris

So let us ask the question that should be on the mind of every thinking person in the world at this moment: If John McCain becomes the 44th president of the United States, what are the odds that a blood clot or falling object will make Sarah Palin the...

If you're looking for a break from the overheated political race, some new books on religion and spirituality might offer a bit of surcease. The Dalai Lama, the exiled spiritual leader, is a scientist at heart. He is also a jokester, a reader and a...

If you're looking for a break from the overheated political race, some new books on religion and spirituality might offer a bit of surcease. •The Dalai Lama, the exiled spiritual leader, is a scientist at heart. He is also a jokester, an...

In Bill Maher's new documentary, " Religulous," the film's protagonist--Maher himself--feels the same way about the film's subject matter at the beginning as at the end: In other words, he thinks religion is a big crock of spit. You know irreverence is...

The Barclay neighborhood is like much of blighted Baltimore. Gang graffiti cover vacant rowhouses. Blue-light police surveillance cameras twinkle overhead at night. And residents have witnessed plenty of bloodshed - last year 10 people were gunned down...

SOMETIMES PEOPLE tell me I should go into politics, but I'm not interested. We've got enough boobs in the White House. People would ask about foreign affairs and I'd say, 'What's wrong with American men?' Then they'd ask about global warming and I'd say,...

As you read this, Ayaan Hirsi Ali sits in a safe house with armed men guarding her door. She is one of the most poised, intelligent and compassionate advocates of freedom of speech and conscience alive today, and for this she is despised in Muslim...

Views on 'values' Re " 'The general welfare,' " editorial, Dec. 28 The Times calls building a fence on the southern U.S. border a simplistic solution. I would like to ask The Times, six years after 9/11, how can we call ourselves safe when we don't know...

Antony Flew will go to hell. So will the rest of us who reject Jesus Christ as our savior, according to Bible-believing Christians. But Flew, an 84-year-old English philosopher, is a hot item in some evangelical circles. In 2006, Biola University -- a...

It has become fashionable in certain smart circles to regard atheism as a sign of superior education, of highly evolved civilization, of enlightenment. Recent bestsellers by Sam Harris, Christopher Hitchens and others suggest that religious faith is a...

Watch the first few minutes of "The Class" in its CBS sitcom debut tonight, and you may not believe me when I say this, but here goes. I think they might have something here. You wouldn't necessarily know it by the series pilot, which frantically...

PETE STARK, a California Democrat, appears to be the first congressman in U.S. history to acknowledge that he doesn't believe in God. In a country in which 83% of the population thinks that the Bible is the literal or "inspired" word of the creator of the...