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  Volume 25 - 2005


Vol 25 No 6

October/November 2005 Vol. 25, No. 6

Editorial

Planetary Ethics - Paul Kurtz

Op-Ed

Genocide in Darfur Goes Unnoticed - Nat Hentoff

Rational Mysticism - Sam Harris

The Root of the Problem - Christopher Hitchens

The Ten Court Decisions - Ronald A. Lindsay

Neoconservatism and Global Disaster - Shadia B. Drury

For Liberals, No One’s Evil - Tibor R. Machan

Onward (Evangelical) Christian Soldiers - Laurence W. Britt

Features

SECULARISM -- WILL IT SURVIVE?

Introduction - Tom Flynn

A Symposium in Print

(Incomplete List of Selections - For Full Symposium Responses, see October/November 2005  Free Inquiry)


Dr. Franklin’s Other Experiment - Otis Dudley Duncan and Lisa Ferraro Parmelee

Soliloquy - David Lehman

The Politics of Media Reform - Benjamin Radford

Antigone - David Lehman

Departments

Leading Questions: The Subjects Are Seculars: An Interview with Barry Kosmin

Letters

Frontlines/Sidelines - Andrea Szalanski

Church-State Update - Tom Flynn

World Report - Bill Cooke

Science and Religion: Fight Dogma, Not Religion - Joshua Fost

Reason and Liberty: The Injustice of Taxation - Steven Walk

Living Without Religion: Secular Immortality - Jim Comstock

Faith and Reason: Real Christians—or, I’m Taking You with Me - Arthur R. Miller

Reviews

God vs. the Gavel: Religion and the Rule of Law By Marci A. Hamilton - Ronald A. Lindsay

Value and Virtue in a Godless Universe By Erik J. Wielenberg - Timothy J. Madigan

Marriage on Trial: The Case against Same-sex Marriage and Parenting By Glenn T. Stanton and Dr. Bill Maier - Laura Purdy

America’s Most Hated Woman: The Life and Gruesome Death of Madalyn Murray O’Hair By Ann Rowe Seaman - Bill Cooke


Free Inquiry December/January, 2005 Volume 25, No. 4

August/September 2005 Vol. 25, No. 5

Editorial

Where Is the Moral Outrage? - Paul Kurtz

Op-Ed

God's Gift to Kansas - Richard Dawkins

Fetishism - Christopher Hitchens

Genealogy and Promiscuity - Wendy Kaminer

Challenges to Marriage Continue - Vern Bullough

Gulliver in Lilliput - Shadia B. Drury

Academic Bills of Rights Assault Education - David Gabbard

CFI Goes to China - David Koepsell

Roadmap to 2050 and a Humanist World - Louis J. Appignani

Features

LIFE: RIGHT... OR COMMODITY? MEDICINE, MORALS, AND MARKETS

Introduction - Tom Flynn

The Legacy of Terri Schiavo for the Nonreligious - Nat Hentoff

Making Our Own Decisions about Death - Peter Singer

Determining the Value of Life - Paul T. Menzel

Why Not a Kidney Market? - James Stacey Taylor

Fetal Pain - Joyce Arthur

Strained and Remanded (Stranded) - Jennifer Michael Hecht

Departments

Letters

Leading Questions: An Interview with David Kaczynski

Frontlines/Sidelines - Andrea Szalanski

Church-State Update - Tom Flynn

World Report - Bill Cooke

Science and Religion: The Backward Premise - Glade Ross

European Correspondent: Politics and Prayer - James Herrick

Reviews
   
Julian's Against the Galileans (Edited and translated by R. Joseph Hoffmann) - William Harwood

Does God Belong in Public School? By Kent Greenawalt - Edd Doerr

New Black Man By Mark Anthony Neal - Norm R. Allen Jr.

What's God Got to Do with It? Robert Ingersoll on Freethought, Honest Talk, and the Separation of Church and State By Tim Page - Tom Flynn

 


Free Inquiry December/January, 2005 Volume 25, No. 4

June/July 2005 Vol. 25, No. 4


Editorial

Back to the Dark Ages - Paul Kurtz

Encyclical - Arthur C. Clarke

Op-Ed

Teflon God - Wendy Kaminer

The Grand Inquisitor Takes the Throne - Robert M. Price

Eating Ethically - Peter Singer

So, Suppose Bush Succeeds.... - Massimo Pigliucci

There Is No Tomorrow - Bill Moyers

Features

THE NEXT SECULAR REVOLUTION?

Introduction - Austin Dacey

Reading Madison in Tehran: The Next Secular Revolution? - Austin Dacey

Portrait of the Activist as a Young Man - Roya Hakakian

Islam and Terrorism: An Interview with Michael Ledeen - Ibn Warraq

A Secular Student in Tehran - Soroush Danesh

Integrity, Doubt, and Academic Freedom: An Interview with Gerd Lüdemann

The Evolution of Religious Ethics - John Teehan

Mystery-mongering, Prejudice, and the Search for Truth - Susan Haack

Holiday - Melissa Hotchkiss

Departments

Letters

Frontlines/Sidelines - Andrea Szalanski

Church-State Update - Tom Flynn

World Report - Bill Cooke

God on Trial: Thy Will Be Done - Barbara Smoker

Humanism at Large 'Faith' and 'Belief' in Naturalistic Humanism - Frank L. Pasquale

Reviews

The Ancestor's Tale: A Pilgrimage to the Dawn of Evolution By Richard Dawkins - Jim Sullivan

Humanism: An Introduction By Jim Herrick - Daniel M. Kane

Behold the Antichrist: Bentham on Religion By Delos B. McKown - William Harwood

One Planet, One People: Beyond "Us vs. Them" By Carl Coon Jr. - Bill Cooke


Free Inquiry December/January, 2005 Volume 25, No. 3

April/May 2005 Vol. 25, No. 3


A Good Will - Paul Kurtz

The Theology of the Tsunami - Richard Dawkins

Why Biblical Religions Are an Obstacle to Freedom - by Shadia B. Drury

Discrimination Against Christians? Oh Please... - by Tom Flynn

Tsunami - Christopher Hitchens

Jesus, the Defense of Marriage -- And Other Unspeakable Acts - R. Joseph Hoffman

Putting to Rest the 'Christian Nation' Myth - David R. Koepsell

 


Free Inquiry December/January, 2005 Volume 25, No. 2

February/March 2005 Vol. 25, No. 2

 

Can We Bridge the Great Divide? - Paul Kurtz

Fundamentalist Political Power in America - James A. Haught

Apartheid for Conservatives on College Campuses - Nat Hentoff

Jihad in the Netherlands - Christopher Hitchens

Flew’s Flawed Science - Victor J. Stenger

Law Reform, or DIY Suicide - Peter Singer

Bad News, Good News - Tom Flynn

Leading Lights Gather to Defend Secularism - Austin Dacey

Scholars Probe Just War and Jihad - Tom Flynn

Mass-market Mysticism - Wendy Kaminer

Free Will and Its Discontents: The Free Will Problem - David A. Shotwell

Materialism through Equivocation: A Dissenting View - Tibor R. Machan

Crime and Causality: Do Killers Deserve to Die? - Thomas W. Clark

How Not to Argue for Abortion Rights - Andrew Johnson

The Art of Living - Vincent E. Parr

Letters

Frontlines/Sidelines - Andrea Szalanski

Church-State Update - Tom Flynn

World Report - Bill Cooke

God on Trial Why I Am Not a Catholic - Arthur R. Miller

Applied Ethics Grounds for Civil Recognition of Same-sex Monogamy - Frank L. Pasquale

Reviews

The End of Faith: Religion, Terror and the Future of Reason By Sam Harris - Tom Flynn

The President of Good and Evil: The Ethics of George W. Bush By Peter Singer - Brad Matthies

The Book Against God: A Novel By James Wood - Jerry Kurlandski

The Naked Mind: If You Can’t Eat It, Drink It, or Screw It, I Ain’t Interested By Sheldon F. Gottlieb - Tim Madigan

The Voltairine de Cleyre Reader Edited by A.J. Brigati - Tom Flynn

Superstition and Other Essays By Robert Green Ingersoll - Tom Flynn


Free Inquiry December/January, 2005 Volume 25, No. 1

December/January 2005 - Volume 25, No. 1

Editorial

‘For Spacious Skies’  - Paul Kurtz

Op-Ed

Atheists for Jesus? - Richard Dawkins

America’s Fear Factor - Wendy Kaminer

The Naturalistic Fallacy - Massimo Pigliucci

Humanism and the UN: A Shared Future? - Carl Coon

Is America a Post-democratic Society? - Paul Kurtz

Features

THE MYTHS OF CHRISTMAS . . . AND BEYOND

Letters

Frontlines/ Sidelines - Andrea Szalanski

Church-State Update - Tom Flynn

World Report - Bill Cooke

Great Minds Bertrand Russell (1872–1970)  - Paul Edwards

Living Without Religion Pascal’s Wager: Not a Good Bet  - Richard T. Hull

European Correspondent Let Inquiry Be Free - Jim Herrick

God on Trial Where Are the Moral Believers? - Guy P. Harrison

Reviews

Affirmations: Joyful and Creative Exuberance By Paul Kurtz - Bill Cooke

Doubt: A History By Jennifer Michael Hecht - Robert Albrook

The Impossibility of God Edited by Michael Martin and Ricki Monnier - Kai Nielsen

Fear, Faith, Fact, Fantasy By John A. Henderson - Wolf Roder

Putting Humans First: Why We’re Nature’s Favorites By Tibor R. Machan - Gerry Dantone


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