Editorials

4

The ‘True Unbeliever’
Plus:
Celebrating Thirty Years
of Free Inquiry

Paul Kurtz

Letters

9

Leading Questions

7

The Secular Humanism
of Star Trek:
A Conversation
with Susan Sackett

Reflections

6

Welcome to Our New Look
and the Council’s 30th
Anniversary Year

Tom Flynn

8

A Look Back

CFI Staff

12

Farewell to Two Black
Humanist Activists

Norm R. Allen Jr.

Op-Ed

11

Above and Beyond

Tom Flynn

13

Keeping America Safe?

Wendy Kaminer

14

Kidneys for Sale?

Peter Singer

15

Irving Kristol and the Radicalization
of American Conservatism

Shadia Drury

16

Paradoxes about Intruding on Nature

Tibor R. Machan

17

Freedom from Free Will

Thomas W. Clark

18

Some of My Best Friends Are Atheists

Katrina Voss

19

Basava Premanand, 1929–2009

Innaiah Narisetti

Features

20

The Fact of Evolution

Richard Dawkins

24

Attitudes of Educated Orthodox
Jews Toward Science
a survey

Alexander Nussbaum

30

Subjection and Escape, Part 2
An American Woman’s
Muslim Journey

Lisa Bauer

36

Environmental Philosophy’s
Challenge to Humanism
Revaluing Cosmopolitan Ethics

Hugh McDonald

Departments

46

Church-State Update

Edd Doerr

47

Great Minds
Emily Dickinson: Pagan Sphinx

Gary Sloan

49

Living Without Religion
Caveat Emptor
The atheist as consumer advocate

S.C. Hitchcock

50

Islam Watch
Notre Dame Conference Probes
the Roots of Islam (Part 1)

Ibn Warraq

52

God on Trial
Cole’s Prayer

Paul Wayne

53

Faith and Reason
Agnosticism Revisited

Neil H. Petrie

55

Humanism and Society
The Quintessential Secular Institution

Frank L. Pasquale

57

Humanism at Large
How to Defend the Ban
on Gay Marriage
Advice for believers

Christian Wright

Reviews

58

Icons of Unbelief: Atheists,
Agnostics, and Secularists
edited by S.T. Joshi

Reviewed by
Edd Doerr

59

Reinventing the Sacred:
A New View of Science,
Reason, and Religion
by Stuart A. Kauffman

Reviewed by
Paul Bassett

61

What Is Man?
And Other Irreverent Essays
by Mark Twain

Reviewed by
William Harwood

63

W.K. Clifford and “The Ethics of Belief”
by Timothy J. Madigan

Reviewed by
Tom Flynn

Poetry

41

Dances of Life, Dances of Death

Joe Nickell