The ISHV Cyber Think Tank is a digest of articles, interviews, and other musings compiled by ISHV Board Member Robert B. Tapp.
Dialectics of Enlightenment. by Kwame Anthony Appiah, nybooks.com.
“In particular, what if the effort to shore up rationality invites its opposite? What if light is destined to generate shadows, Enlightenment a Counter-Enlightenment? That’s the thesis of Justin E.H. Smith’s new book, Irrationality: A History of the Dark Side of Reason. The difficulty posed by reason, he suggests, is…. Should we conclude that rational solutions—improved algorithms, better voting systems—are bound to worsen the underlying irrationality? Smith says that irrationality is “humanly ineradicable, and that efforts to eradicate it are themselves supremely irrational”; but the efforts he largely has in mind, it seems, are efforts to manage human irrationality, not to eradicate it, and such efforts can be given old-fashioned, rationalist names: good governance, prudent policy….. We can’t solve all human problems with reason alone; but we can’t solve any of them without it.” open
Fitness Trackers, Dating Apps, and Other Ladders to Nowhere. by Mallory Rentsch, lists.christianitytoday.com. open
Watch: Pro-Choice Activists to ‘Pro-Life Barbie’: ‘Fck You and the Rest of You Ignorant Btches’. by Amanda House, breitbart.com. open
What Counts As Religious Experience? templeton.org. open
Pakistan lawyer is named Secularist of the Year by NSS. by Barry Duke, patheos.com. open
James Dobson: If the Equality Act Becomes Law, Democrats “Will Enslave Us”. by Hemant Mehta, friendlyatheist.patheos.com. open
Andrew Bacevich, What Illinois Bikers Know That Washington Doesn’t. by Andrew Bacevich, tomdispatch.com. open
Memorial Day 1955 — And Today. by wjastore, bracingviews.com
“I find it remarkable that talk of peace in America has almost completely disappeared from our public discourse. Permanent war is instead seen as inevitable, the price of confronting evildoers around the world.” open
Washington State Legalizes Composting of Human Remains. by Rebecca Worby, psmag.com. open
Secularism in the West. by Sky Island, globalplus.thearda.com. open
Researchers find Catholic Church’s patterns of sexual abuse consistent across time and place. religionwatch.com. open
We’ve Reached the End of White Christian America. by The Atlantic, theatlantic.com. open
James Dobson Warns Democrats Will ‘Enslave’ Conservative Christians by Michael Stone, patheos.com. open
Faith demands we forgo our most powerful capacity: reason. by Rick Snedeker, patheos.com. open
After All the Handwringing We’re Now Seeing Exactly Why Conservative Christians Supported Trump. By Hollis Phelps & L. Benjamin Rolsky. open
Think Yoga and Mindfulness in Public Schools Are a No-Brainer? Think Again. May 17, 2019, 1:52pm Candy Gunther Brown. open
Forbidden! by David Breeden, medium.com. open
Report catalogues soaring incidents of trespassing, disruption, and intimidation at abortion clinics. open
Millennial Non-Christians Show Greater Spiritual Curiosity Than Older Adults. barna.com. open
Why Fiction Trumps Truth. by Yuval Noah Harari, nytimes.com. open
White Women Are Helping States Pass Abortion Restrictions. by Ronald Brownstein, theatlantic.com. open
Does Religion Cause Violence? by Jonathan MS Pearce, patheos.com. open
An Atheist’s Guide to Spirituality
‘I did not have to believe anything irrational about the universe.’ Nautilus. May 26. open
Brain Pickings by Maria Popova, brainpickings.org. open
Christians will exodus from Maine because of a new vaccination law by Barry Duke, patheos.com. open
Jared Diamond: There’s a 49 Percent Chance the World As We Know It Will End by 2050, by David Wallace-Wells
‘We Don’t Know a Planet Like This’: CO2 Levels Hit 415 PPM for First Time in 3 Million+ Years. by Jon Queally, commondreams.org
Exploring the Historical Roots of Religious Freedom A Conversation with Steven Waldman by Becky Garrison
This World Humanist Day, What Do We Wish People Knew About Humanism? by TheHumanist.com Staff,
FFRF pro-choice NY Times ad faults religion
Commentary: World Humanist Day signifies importance of humanistic values. By Dan Barker
AOC Is the Trump-Era Hero We Need, by Krystal Ball,