I've been busy with this and that, so haven't had time to read the Hobby Lobby decision myself.  For those trying to get a grip, Bri...

There's a lot of worry in philosophy about the gender gap: Why does it exist? What should we do about it?  I sometimes wonder why this i...

Anne Fausto-Sterling's books are informative and fascinating.  She writes in an exploratory, non-dogmatic way that I really appreciat...

I just raced through John Colapinto's fascinating book As Nature Made Him and now I'm reading Anne Fausto-Sterling's Sexing the...

I had to take down the recent post "Campus Rape Statistics" because certain links in it were creating strange problems in other po...

Goodbye vaccination, for a while, hello gender.  With the vaccination chapter of my parenthood book 90% finished, I'm going back to the ...

Samantha Bee, of the Daily Show, was apparently wrong when she said anti-vaxxers tend to be liberals (this is via commenter Scu).  They come...

Samantha Bee had a fantastic segment on vaccine refuseniks last night, charging that these people come out of the left, not the right, and...

Frank Bruni is really, really brilliant today.   WE no longer have news. We have springboards for commentary. We have cues for Tweets. ...

A lot of people have been insisting that we must be incensed by Elliot Rodger's killing spree not only because of the death toll, but be...

Most vaccine refusers seem to fall into four groups: Conscientious Refusers--people who reject all vaccination, like conscientious objecto...

This  is a superb book--full of information about infectious diseases, the impact of vaccination, the history of vaccination resistance...

Here's a scenario from Garrett Cullity's article "Moral Free Riding" -- The Enterprising Elves On the first day in my...

One reason we ought to vaccinate children is because otherwise we'd be receiving the benefit of other kids' being vaccinated for f...

Philip Kitcher hits many nails on the head. I like what he says about the reason to be skeptical of all religious beliefs.  Yes, this reall...

Here's a fun thought experiment from Anarchy, State, and Utopia (Robert Nozick), with a few variants at the end: Do I have to ...

Background:  Mary and her daughter Violet live on an island with a vigorous voluntary vaccination program.  There is nearly 100% complianc...