Calvin Mercer

Slaves to Faith

A Therapist Looks Inside the Fundamentalist Mind

As Dr. Mercer posits, the fundamentalist is fundamentally driven by anxiety layered over a fragile sense of self-identity constructed upon a system of...

Religion and the Technological Future

An Introduction to Biohacking, Artificial Intelligence, and Transhumanism

We live in an age of rapid technological advancement. Never before has humankind wielded so much power over our own biology. Biohacking, the attempt a...

There Ought to Be a Law

A Bright Day at the State Capitol

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