Editorial

4

The Principles of Fairness: Progressive Taxation

Paul Kurtz

Op-Ed

12

The Seductions of Misbelief

Tom Flynn

14

Is there a God? Go Ask Alice

David Koepsell

15

Anglicans and Idiocy

Christopher Hitchens

17

What Greater Motivation?

Peter Singer

18

Rescuing the Constitution from the Flag

Nat Hentoff

20

Sin, Sex, and Celibacy

Shadia B. Drury

22

Gender and Science

Vern L. Bullough

24

Altruism's Bad Influence

Tibor R. Machan

25

Spiritual Libertarians

R. Joseph Hoffmann

27

Should We Respect Religion?

Barbara Smoker

Features: Humanism and the Science of Happiness

31

Introduction

Nathan Bupp

32

God, Aristotle, and the New Science of Happiness

Ken Livingston

39

A Talk with Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi-the Father of 'Flow'

Nathan Bupp

41

Can Psychology Be Positive about Religion?

John Shook

43

How Can Philosphy Address the Problem of Happiness?

James Gouinlockr

47

Humans Are Hive Creatures

Jonathan Haidt

49

Bertrand Russell and The Conquest of Happiness

Michael E. Berumen

53

The Fullness of Life

Paul Kurtz

Departments

8

Leading Questions Pop Icon, Humanist An Interview with Bjšrn Ulvaeus

9

Letters

48

Poem The Round Square

Jamey Hecht

55

Church-State Update

Edd Doerr and Tom Flynn

56

Islam Watch The Nature of the Literary Evidence: A Dialogue on Methodology, Part 1

Ibn Warraq

Reviews

60

The Happiness Hypothesis: Finding Modern Truth in Ancient Wisdom-Why the Meaningful Life Is Closer Than You Think By Jonathan Haidt

David L. Weiner

61

Dictionary of Atheism, Skepticism, & Humanism Edited by Bill Cooke

William Harwood

62

Intelligent Thought: Science versus the Intelligent Design Movement Edited by John Brockman

Glenn Branch

63

OSuperman Returns Warner Bros. Entertainment, Inc., 2006

William Orem

Editorial

4

Sundry Reflections

Paul Kurtz

Op-Ed

12

A Time to Push Back

Tom Flynn

14

One Unholy Alliance

David Koepsell

15

Lies in Embryo

Arthur Caplan

17

Partial-truth Abortion Bans

Wendy Kaminer

18

Reply to a Christian

Sam Harris

21

The Freedom to Ridicule Religion and Deny the Holocust

Peter Singer

22

New Ways to Grow

Vern Bullough

24

Wanting but Reproducing

Tibor R. Machan

25

Limited Love in Deus Caritas Est

Gerd Lüdemann

Features: Paul Kurtz at Eighty

26

Congratulations from the World

30

Why I Am a Skeptic about Religious Claims

Paul Kurtz

34

Abortion Rights after South Dakota

Eileen McDonagh

39

The Time Is Right to Renew Our Look at Morality

Jeanette Lowen

41

Moon

Valerie Wohlfeld

Departments

8

Leading Questions - Abortion and Our Culture: An Interview with Eyal Press

9

Letters

42

Church-State Update

Edd Doerr and Tom Flynn

43

Ingersoll Individuality

Robert Green Ingersoll

45

Applied Ethics: Bush's Totalitarian Logic

Lissa Skitolsky

47

Humanism at Large - A Metric Clock-Calendar for the Second Cosmic Year

Robert Page Burruss

50

God on Trial - Antony in Wonderland

Raymond D. Bradley

52

Living without Religion - The Book of Job and J.B.: Faith and Reason

Gary Sloan

54

Faith and Reason - The Sin of Obedience

Barbara Smoker

55

Islam Watch - The Need for Qur'ranic Criticism, Part 2

Ibn Warraq

57

Humanism in the Arts - Our Other National Anthem

Arthur R. Miller

Reviews

59

The Evolution-Creation Struggle By Michael Ruse

Nick Matzke

61

The Empty Tomb: Jesus Beyond the Grave Edited by Robert Price and Jeffrey Lowder

R. Joseph Hoffmann

62

The Last Witchfinder By James Morrow

George Zebrowski

64

Loving the Body: Black Religious Studies and the Erotic Edited by Anthony B. Pinn and Dwight N. Hopkins

Norm R. Allen Jr.