Conservatives like to claim that “our rights come from God, not from government!” But that’s a false dichotomy. Our rights come from Nature. Our job is to recognize them, to encode them into our laws, and to insure that everyone can enjoy them.
Two Evangelical writers claim that Paganism is somehow inauthentic because it doesn’t exactly match the Paganism of our ancient ancestors, and that the appealing parts of modern Paganism were cribbed from Christianity. Neither claim is true.
There is a major new development in online technology: ChatGPT, a chat system that uses artificial intelligence to tap into the vast pool of information on the internet and to generate answers to questions in human-sounding language. Henry Kissinger says its impact will be on the scale of the printing press and the Enlightenment.