How do you define blind faith? Consider America's romance with religion (regularly chronicled by the Pew Forum). The great majority of Americans profess belief in God and identify with a particular ...

We often avoid facts not out of indifference but because we suspect they'll wake up values we'd rather keep quiet.

The president’s default when he throws out something completely ridiculous or irresponsible is to couch it in these terms. He thrives on the power he derives through ignorance. The more room he leaves ...

As Buddhism teaches us, ignorance is an emotion. And this would give us hope that, being in an emotional world, it can be managed, transformed and maybe even quickly evolve into a more constructive ...

Knowledge can be a source of power and pleasure, but it also can be unsettling, humiliating, even terrifying. In “Ignorance and Bliss,” Mark Lilla, a professor of humanities at Columbia University, ...

One superstitious belief that was used as an excuse by Filipinos to light up firecrackers on New Year’s Eve is that the explosion would drive out evil spirits as well as bad luck. I knew someone who ...

Mary thinks her husband might be cheating but doesn’t check his emails. John has a lump in his armpit but doesn’t see a doctor. The tobacco companies work to suppress research on the effects of ...

Everyone in America knows that “ignorance of the law is no excuse.” It is drummed into students from their first civics class in elementary school, so much so that it is a part of our cultural ...

An oft-quoted saying attributed to Albert Einstein, "The only thing more dangerous than ignorance is arrogance," was most likely not said or written by him, despite the fact that hardly a day goes by ...