The House recently voted 396-9 to reaffirm as the national motto the phrase "In God We Trust" and encouraged its pronouncement on public buildings and continued printing on the coin of the realm. The ...

Michael Shermer on the Enduring Appeal of the Apocolypse. With Christian radio broadcaster Harold Camping predicting the apocalypse for May 21st, Michael Shermer considers why human beings are so ...

Besides having sex for pleasure and cooking food before ingestion, there is one other way in which humans differentiate from the rest of the animal kingdom: our big, believing brains. Michael Shermer, ...

"Even paranoids have real enemies," said the poet Delmore Schwartz, who was both clinically paranoid and definitely on to something, according to today's guest: Michael Shermer, the founder of Skeptic ...