Meaning & LifeEssay · personal view
Parents, Teenagers, and the Pull of the Forbidden
A new baby can strain a couple. A teenager can test a family. In both seasons, love needs more than good intentions: it needs patience, boundaries, and time.
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EssaysEssay · personal view
If It Weren’t for Progress
The freedoms we inherit were purchased by people who challenged authority, survived persecution, and widened the circle of human dignity. Progress is real—but never automatic.
God & BeliefEssay · personal view
What Is My Religion? Not Knowing
Where and when we are born shapes what we believe. That is why the most honest answer I can give about my own religion is not certainty, but “I don’t know.”
EssaysEssay · personal view
Teach Us How to Think: Education, Not Indoctrination
The answer to a closed mind is not a different doctrine. It is an education that teaches us how to examine claims, change our minds, and keep asking.
EssaysEssay · personal view
Four Decades of Questions
At forty, I looked back at a science book, a church, three magazines, several reinventions, and a daughter—and found the same question running through all of them: what should I do with the life I was given?
God & BeliefEssay · personal view
Does the Devil Exist? The Answer Depends on You
Whether the devil is understood as a being, a symbol, or a name for our worst impulses, one question remains: what responsibility belongs to us?
Meaning & LifeEssay · personal view
Does Happiness Exist?
Maybe happiness is real as a feeling, but impossible as a permanent destination. What if a better goal is gratitude for the brief privilege of being alive?
Einstein CentennialExplainer
Is the Universe Truly Random?
A rolled die is unpredictable but not mysterious. Quantum events may be different. Here is where science draws the line, and where the debate begins.
Einstein CentennialExplainer
How Scientists Tested Einstein’s Hunch
Einstein suspected quantum physics was hiding something. John Bell found a way to check, and decades of experiments gave a clear answer, with limits.
Einstein CentennialExplainer
What Is Quantum Entanglement, and Why Did Einstein Call It Spooky?
Two particles can share one quantum state, even far apart. Here is what that means, why Einstein distrusted it, and why it still cannot carry a message.