The Lippard Blog

Alabama and the GOP are discovering what this blog pointed out 15 years ago--if you're going to adopt a policy that embryos are full bea...

Vocab Malone, with whom I had a blog debate about abortion and personhood last year, recently came across this comment of mine on the Point ...

Vocab has put up the fifth and final part of his essay on abortion and personhood up at his blog , devoted to Thomson's violinist argume...

Vocab Malone has posted the fourth part of his essay on abortion and personhood , addressing the arguments from viability and wantedness. T...

Vocab Malone has posted the third part of his argument against abortion at his blog , focusing on what he calls "the argument from size...

Vocab Malone has posted a second set of arguments , addressing more directly the argument that some sort of capacity for sentience is a prop...

Vocab Malone has put up his first post arguing for the position that "the unborn human embryo is a full person at the moment of concep...

Local Christian hip-hop artist and slam poet Vocab Malone, who I've interacted with online and met when Daniel Dennett spoke at ASU ear...

Richard Carrier, an independent scholar with a Ph.D. in Ancient History from Columbia University, gave a talk this morning to the Humanist S...

Day one steps are closing Guantanamo Bay, ceasing and prohibiting torture, ceasing and prohibiting extraordinary rendition; steps for the fi...

Good: Washington joins Oregon in allowing doctor-assisted suicide, South Dakota rejects further abortion limits, Michigan allows medical ma...

Sarah Palin says that Bill Ayers counts as a domestic terrorist for setting off bombs, but declines to apply the term to those who set off b...

The Door Christian Fellowship, a creepily cultish Pentecostal Christian sect that's an offshoot of Aimee Semple McPherson's Foursqua...

This doesn't seem terribly surprising, but Ed Brayton at Dispatches from the Culture Wars points out a New York Times op-ed piece that...

The fifth ApostAZ podcast (MP3) is out: Episode 005 Atheism and Freethought in Phoenix- "Every Sperm is Sacred" from Monty Python&...

(I've had this in draft since June 21, but forgot about it--I was making an effort to verify that Dahmer was actually raised as a creati...

Tonight I attended the Goldwater Institute's screening of the HBO documentary "Mr. Conservative," a biography of Barry Goldwa...

One of the subjects which I had intended to make part of my Ph.D. dissertation on social epistemology (pertaining to how most of what we kno...