Matt Thornton examines the claim that police are deliberately using deadly force against innocent people because of their skin color. Based on a careful look at the data and public info on fatal police shootings, he finds the police are a threat to your life—but only if you are engaged in criminal activity and you violently resist arrest, no matter your race.

Javier Reyes argues that, despite all the rosy-eyed predications about the ways in which AI will transform life for the better and the doomsday visions of how AI will kill us all, we will drown in a turbulent sea of inextricable and nonsensical bureaucratic rules long before AI can save or exterminate us. 

Sasha Ayad, Lisa Marchiano, and Stella O’Malley warn that therapists and schools can be just as caught up in social contagions as any young person and offer practical advice to parents who are seeking therapists for their gender-questioning child or who are dealing with schools that immediately want to affirm their child’s new trans identification.

S. T. Joshi shares our best understanding of the earliest forms of religion. He makes the case that numerous strands of primitive thought, belief, and action—especially those that contributed to the protection and expansion of the group—all fused millennia ago into an inescapable tendency toward belief in gods, a soul, and an afterlife.

Neil McNamara discusses the idea that our universe may be just one of myriad inhabitable oases in an infinity of space and time. If so, he argues, then all of the attributes, both good and bad, of our home can be easily seen as the result of ordinary probability.

Robert M. Price outlines the key characteristics of gospels and makes the case that the Andrew Lloyd Webber and Tim Rice rock opera Jesus Christ Superstar is a modern gospel—both for its Jesus-centered story and poetic diction.