Admittedly, definitions suck. They never satisfy everyone and — worse than that — they often bore. But they are unavoidable. So here we go: What does “secular” even mean? The short answer: Secular ...

After climbing for decades, the percentage of Americans with no religion has leveled off. For the past few years, the share of adults who identify as atheist, agnostic or “nothing in particular” has ...

In a famous passage in his 1919 lecture on “Science as a Vocation,” Max Weber explores the meaning of death in modernity. He contrasts the lives of people in traditional, agrarian societies, ...