Sam Harris: ‘The Separation Between Science and Human Values Is an Illusion’

Staff / Truthdig Apr 6, 2010 We were a little slow on the uptake when it came to finding this TED talk that author and Truthdig contributor Sam Harris gave this past winter, but it's definitely worth a belated look, or even a second look, as the case may be. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

Calling All Rebels

Chris Hedges / Truthdig Mar 8, 2010 Brace yourself. The American empire is over. And the descent is going to be horrifying. How do we fight back? Dig deeper ( 8 Min. Read )

China at Odds With WTO Over Media Import Rules

Staff / Truthdig Sep 23, 2009 It's not the first time that objections have been raised over the kinds of values promoted, whether explicitly or implicitly, by media products hailing from the general vicinity of Hollywood, but this time the issue concerns a whole country taking on a major international commercial coalition: China and the World Trade Organization, respectively. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

Not With a Bang but a Twitter

Staff / Truthdig Apr 15, 2009 Can plugging into online social networks via Twitter or Facebook lead to some kind of computer-aided moral decline en masse? A study out of the University of Southern California's Brain and Creativity Institute seems to suggest that this may be an imminent side effect of living in information-overloaded societies. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

South Africa Prepares for World Cup, Prostitution

Staff / Truthdig Jul 16, 2008 A plan to legalize sex work in time for South Africa's 2010 World Cup has many in the country upset. While supporters believe criminalization puts women in harm's way, religious groups and others argue that "family values" trump the interests of both the national economy and individual workers. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

Jesse Jackson Backpedals on Obama Comment

Staff / Truthdig Jul 10, 2008 The Rev. Jesse Jackson quickly switched to damage-control mode Wednesday after Fox News picked up a "crude" and "private" comment that Jackson made about Barack Obama when he thought wasn't being recorded. Multiple updates. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

Don’t Ask, Don’t Kvell

Marie Cocco / Truthdig Sep 1, 2007 Yes, it's hypocritical when a member of the "family values" party gets caught stepping out on his spouse or tapping toes in a restroom, but politicians of all stripes should be allowed to destroy their marriages in peace. Dig deeper ( 3 Min. Read )

A Sense of History

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Mr. Fish: Leave Your Morals at the Door

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Hold the Religious Accountable for Their Beliefs

Staff / Truthdig Mar 13, 2006 A prominent Slovenian-born atheist, surveying the violence done in the name of Islam, argues in the N.Y. Times that we should submit Islam, along with all other religions, to a "respectful, but for that reason no less ruthless, critical analysis. This, and only this, is the way to show a true respect for Muslims: to treat them as serious adults responsible for their beliefs." Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

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Response to Reader Comments and Criticsm

Sam Harris / Truthdig Jan 27, 2006 While "An Atheist Manifesto" received considerable support from readers of Truthdig, a variety of criticisms surfaced in the reader commentary I summarize and respond. Dig deeper ( 8 Min. Read )

The Wonderful World of Outsourced Torture

Robert Scheer / Truthdig Dec 14, 2005 The more we learn of the Bush administration's pervasive outsourcing of torture, the more sensible it seems as a policy. Evidently, our intelligence people, tainted as they are by the squeamish morality of Western civilization, are just not fully up to the task of getting prisoners to tell us what the administration wants us to hear. Dig deeper ( 3 Min. Read )