Editorials

4

Two-and-a-Half Cheers
for Progressive Humanism
Plus:
Health Care Is
a Human Right

Paul Kurtz

Op-Ed

14

It’s Amazing
What You Can Find
By Looking

Tom Flynn

16

An Eid Too Far

Christopher Hitchens

18

The Trouble with
Organ Trafficking

Arthur Caplan

20

Will Bush-Cheney’s
Chief Torture Lawyer
Face Justice?

Nat Hentoff

22

The Ties that Bind

Janet L. Factor

24

Scholars Probe
Religious/Secular Tensions
at The New School

Nathan Bupp, Ibn Warraq, Derek Araujo

Departments

8

Letters

12

Leading Questions
Christian Hypocrisy,
World Hunger, and the
Secularist Response:
A Conversation with
Peter Singer

46

Church-State Update

Edd Doerr

48

Living Without Religion
This Is It: Confessions
of a Skeptic

Will Cooper

50

God on Trial
Theism as Hate
Propaganda:
Can One Be Good
with God?

David Rand

52

Humanism at LargeThe Importance
of Definitions

S.C. Hitchcock

Features

28

The Subversion of Lisa Bauer
An Introduction by Richard Dawkins

Richard Dawkins

30

Subjection and Escape, Part 1
An American Woman’s
Muslim Journey

Lisa Bauer

37

John Dewey,
Philosophical Radical

Phillip Kitcher

39

Painful Junction

N. Bonaparte

41

Clericalism and
Anticlericalism in Spain

Edd Doerr

43

Against Tolerance

Stephen Gallagher

Poem

57

A Dream

Katerina Stoykova-Klemer

Reviews

53

Darwin: A Life in Poems
by Ruth Padel

Matt Marshall

54

Forced into Faith:
How Religion Abuses
Children’s Rights
by Innaiah Narisetti

Floris van den Berg

55

Is Goodness without God
Good Enough?
by Robert K. Garcia & Nathan L. King

Norm R. Allen Jr

58

Playing Gods:
The Board Game
of Divine Domination
Created by Benjamin Radford

John Shook