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

Creating Secular and Humanist Alternatives to Religion

Paul Kurtz

Op-Ed

14

What's Wrong with Megachurches?

Tom Flynn

16

New Threats to Academic Freedom

David Koepsell

18

Our Culture of Plagiarism

Wendy Kaminer

19

Who Will Decide You Should Die?

Nat Hentoff

21

Vice Verso

Christopher Hitchens

23

Expanding the Circle

Peter Singer

25

Altitude and Attitude

Arthur Caplan

26

One Flew over Biola

James Underdown

Features: Sects And Violence

27

Contemporary Religious Terrorism

Gabriel Palmer-Fernandez

32

Why 'Religious Literacy' Is a Misleading Concept

Laura Purdy

35

Is Faith Good for Us?

Phil Zuckerman

39

Throwing the Book at Them

Thomas E. Mates

42

Do Our Values Come from God? The Evidence Says No

Victor J. Stenger

45

Totem Metamorphosis

Joe Nickell

46

SOS Celebrates 21 Years of Service

Jim Christopher

48

SOS as a Viable Self-help Alternative

Susan Gibbons

Departments

11

Letters

13

Leading Questions - Inside Christian Nationalism An Interview with Michelle Goldberg

50

Church-State Update

Edd Doerr and Tom Flynn

51

Science and Religion Fear and Folly: Russell, Lewis, and the Existential Identity Thief

Thomas Szasz

53

Humanism and the Arts - Standing Up for Science Fiction

George Zebrowski

55

Faith and Reason - Heaven as an Argument against God's Existence

Avital Pilpel

57

Humanism at Large - The Loch Ness Nipple

Katrina Voss

Reviews

58

American Theocracy By Kevin Phillips

Albert Menendez

59

America at the Crossroads By Francis Fukuyama

Shadia B. Drury

63

Ye Will Say I Am No Christian Edited by Bruce Braden

Daniel M. Kane

64

On Bullshit and Its Users By Harry G. Frankfurt

Thomas Larson

Books In Brief

65

African American Humanist Principles By Anthony B. Pinn

Norm R. Allen Jr.

66

The Pagan Christ By Tom Harpur

Tom Flynn

66

The Population Fix By Edward C. Hartman

Tom Flynn

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.

Editorial

4

The Vatican and the Supreme Court: Should Religion Be a Private or Public Matter?

Paul Kurtz

The Cartoons and the Crisis

8

Islam and the Cartoons

Tom Flynn

12

Mutt, Jeff, and Muhammad

R. Joseph Hoffmann

13

Representation of the Human Form in Islam

Ibn Warraq

Op-Ed

16

Secularism's Breakthrough Moment

Tom Flynn

18

The Myth of Secular Moral Chaos

Sam Harris

20

Bioengineering and Self-Improvement

Arthur Caplan

22

'Judicial Activism' and the Conservative Revolution

Shadia B. Drury

24

C.S. Lewis's Hideous Weakness

Christopher Hitchens

25

Why the Korean Stem-cell Controversy Matters

Peter Singer

27

The Source of Our Diminishing Liberties

Nat Hentoff

29

Ten Years of Humanism and Skepticism in Russia

Valerii Kuvakin

Features: Intelligent Design After Dover

32

The Thin Edge of the Wedge

David Koepsell

34

Natural 'Knowledge' and Natural 'Design'

Richard Dawkins

36

Science vs. Religion in the ID Debate

Lawrence M. Krauss

40

Intelligent Design as Illusion

Stewart Elliot Guthrie

45

Teaching Evolution at a Christian College

David Ludden

47

Why Hard Science Won't Cure Easy Religion

R. Joseph Hoffmann

50

The Education of Shelby Knox

Benjamin Radford

54

The Specter of Brain Science

Thomas W. Clark

Departments

9

Letters

51

Church-State Update

Edd Doerr and Tom Flynn

53

Islam Watch: The Need for Qur'anic Criticism, Part 1

Ibn Warraq

Reviews

61

Our Endangered Values By Jimmy Carter

Keith Taylor

61

Thomas Paine and the Promise of America By Harvey J. Kaye

Kenneth Burchell

63

The Just War and Jihad Edited By R. Joseph Hoffmann

Kenneth W. Krause

64

Roadside Religion By Timothy K. Beal

Greg Martinez

65

Democracy Under Assault By Michele Swenson

Edd Doerr

64

Freethought Busts From the Bank of Wisdom

Tom Flynn

Editorial

4

Hurrah for Freedom of
Inquiry: Vital Issues
for Secular Humanists
plus
The Best Antidote
for Religious Fanaticism

Paul Kurtz

Op-Ed

12

Secularism…Plus

Tom Flynn

14

A Time for Courage

David Koepsell

16

Academic Freedom for All

Nat Hentoff

18

Strange Bedfellows

Wendy Kaminer

19

The Lost Sobriety
of Conservatism

Shadia B. Drury

22

When the Free Exercise
of Religion Is Costly

Christopher Hitchens

23

Thank You, Science

Katrina Voss

Features: Science, Ethics, and the Soul

25

Council's 25th Anniversary
World Congress a
Resounding Success

Nathan Bupp

29

Enlightened Solutions
for Global Challenges

Mario Bunge

35

How We Can Win
the Global Culture War

Stuart Jordan

38

Twisting Scripture:
When Bible Translators
(and Their Bibles) Lie

Hector Avalos

45

Will Secularism Survive?

Hector Avalos
Jim Herrick

46

The Failure of Celibacy

Vern L. Bullough

49

The Intolerant Gospel

Gerd Lüdemann

Departments

8

Leading Questions
On the Record
An Interview with
Herbert Hauptman

9

Letters

51

Church-State Update

Edd Doerr and Tom Flynn

52

Humanism at Large
Jesus! I'm Too Nice
for My Own Good!

Martha W. Love

53

Islam Watch
Apostasy and
Human Rights

Ibn Warraq

56

Applied Ethics
Free Iraq

James P. Sterba

57

A Word from Ingersoll
Christianity's Decline

Robert Green Ingersoll

Reviews

59

Reality Check:
What Your Mind Knows,
but Isn't Telling You
By David L. Weiner

Daniel M. Kane

60

Can God & Caesar Coexist?:
Balancing Religious Freedom
and International Laws
By Robert F. Drinan

Edd Doerr

61

Mao: The Untold Story
By Jung Chang
and Jon Halliday

Bill Cooke

62

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

Edd Doerr

63

Toward a New
Political Humanism
Edited by Barry F. Seidman
and Neil J. Murphy

David Koepsell

64

Freethought Busts
From the Bank of Wisdom

Tom Flynn