My June 20 letter, in which I criticized religion for claiming a monopoly on morality, drew several responses, one as recently as September. The ones that disagreed contained more logical fallacies ...

Last month, in what Jeffrey Toobin called “the worst speech given by an Attorney General of the United States in modern history,” Attorney General William Barr offered a lecture at Notre Dame Law ...

In the New York Times online, “postmodern” scholar Stanley Fish argues that secularism doesn’t provide any reasons for particular course of action. By maintaining an artificial divide between public ...

One of the most damaging confusions in Israel’s current public debate is the assumption that religious moral seriousness and ...

Perhaps the caustic voice from Baltimore — H.L. Mencken — was a bit too cynical regarding those inscribed stone tablets. All civilizations and cultures need concepts of “good and bad” or “right and ...

The film, released 40 years after Bertolucci's "Last Tango in Paris" was criticized by the church, is a story about the turbulence of youth. By Eric J. Lyman ROME – Some 40 years after he earned the ...

In deciding the morals of abortion, it is important to understand there are three different points of view to be considered. Two are biblically based; one is secular. First is the moral position ...

I have never accepted irrational religious beliefs. If something in my -- or any -- religion doesn't make sense, I don't accept it. That's why my five-volume commentary on the Torah (the first five ...