It's Pi Day! And in honor of this year's celebration I decided to do a bit of historical research. While π—the ratio between a circle's circumference and its diameter—has long been known and ...

On Jan. 6, 2021, a mob of United States citizens from across the country stormed the Capitol building in Washington D.C. while Congress was in session certifying the outcome of the presidential ...

Writing a Comment for this week’s magazine about the S.E.C.’s lawsuit against Goldman Sachs got me thinking again about the underlying reasons for the subprime crisis. Was it primarily driven by Wall ...

Women are bad drivers, Saddam plotted 9/11, Obama was not born in America, and Iraq had weapons of mass destruction: to believe any of these requires suspending some of our critical--thinking ...

In this paper some claims of Professor Ricoeur are challenged. (1) It is pointed out on historical grounds that counter to Professor Ricoeur's claim, most past philosophies are displaced, or ignored.

Review of Irrationality: A History of the Dark Side of Reason. By Justin E. Smith. Princeton University Press. 312 pp. $29.95. Centuries ago, the philosopher Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz declared that ...