18

Science and Religion: The End of a Beautiful Relationship?

John R. Shook

20

Can the Brain Decide Whether God Exists?

John R. Shook

23

Strong Believers Beware

Matthew Caleb Flamm

27

Scientists and Religious Faith

Ronald N. Giere

32

The Unmaking of Wisdom: Part 1

Andy Norman

39

Why I Am Not a Luddite

Kristi DeMeester

Editorial

4

Secular Humanism: Its Scope and Its Limits

Ronald A. Lindsay

Leading Questions

7

Glenn Beck: Icon of Irrationality

A conversation with Alexander Zaitchik

Letters

11

News Beat

16

Dawkins, Harris, Krauss, and Many Others Highlight Council for Secular Humanism Conference

Op-Eds

8

Speaking of Inconvenient Truths...

Tom Flynn

9

Revisiting Natural Rights

Tibor R. Machan

12

Is Religion Like Sex?

Shadia B. Drury

13

Eat Tofu, Do Science

Katrina Voss

14

Atheists Are Generous—They Just Don't Give to Charity

Tom Rees

15

Media Stereotypes and the Invisible Latino 'Nones'

Juhem Navarro-Rivera

Departments

47

Church-State Update
Education "Reform"

Edd Doerr

48

Great Minds
An Epicurean Alternative to Religion

Priscilla Sakezles

50

Living Without Religion
Why Most People Believe in the Supernatural

Stephen Uhl

51

Religion in History
Atheists, Anti-atheists, and Nazis—Once Again

P. W. Sperlich

53

Faith and Reason
"I'm Not Religious, but I Am Spiritual"

Richard Schoenig

55

Humanism at Large
Jesus Points

Julia Loreth

56

Thinking Cosmically
Keep Your Eyes on the Stars

Lawrence Rifkin

Reviews

58

C Street: The Fundamentalist Threat to American Democracy

by Jeff Sharlet
reviewed by Edmund D. Cohen

62

The Armageddon Factor: The Rise of Christian Nationalism in Canada

by Marci McDonald
reviewed by George Williamson

64

Christmas—Philosophy for Everyone: Better Than a Lump of Coal

Edited by Scott C. Lowe
reviewed by Tom Flynn

Poetry

66

Doubt I, II, and III

by Rick Ferris

16

The Labyrinth: God, Darwin, and The Meaning of Life

Philip Appleman

27

When Atheists Meet Jesus

Jim Bado

31

The Unmaking of Wisdom Part 2: Recovering Reason

Andy Norman

35

On God and Our Ultimate Purpose

Stephen Maitzen

38

Secular Humanism Is...

Tom Flynn

Editorial

4

One (National) Step Back, One (Local) Step Forward

Tom Flynn

Leading Questions

7

Spotting Bullshit

A conversation with Stephen Law

Letters

11

Op-Eds

8

Lost in Translation

Christopher Hitchens

9

Angry Atheists vs. The Catholic Church

Wendy Kaminer

12

Health Reform Diagnosis: Condition Critical

Arthur Caplan

13

The Myth of Surplus Wealth

Tibor Machan

14

Our Assassin in Chief

Nat Hentoff

15

Et Tu, Hollywood?

Katrina Voss/em>

Departments

51

Church-State Update
Midterm Election Fallout

Edd Doerr

52

Applied Ethics
The Brave New World of Brain-Internet Interface Technology

Elliot D. Cohen

53

Islam Watch
Historical Methodology and the Believer, Part 3

Ibn Warraq

55

African American Humanism
Faith Predators: Looting the American Dream

Sikivu Hutchinson

56

Humanism at Large
The Paragraph I Wish Sam Harris Would Write

Lawrence Rifkin

Reviews

58

Hating God: The Untold Story of Misotheism

by Bernard Schweizer
reviewed by Joyce E. Salisbury

60

Saving Freedom: We Can Stop America's Slide Into Socialism

by Jim DeMint

To Save America: Stopping Obama's Secular-Socialist Machine

by Newt Gingerich
reviewed by Stuart Whatley

18

Facing Misery: Confronting Illness, Even Death, without a Prayer, Introduction

Tom Flynn

19

Hastening Death: Moral and Legal Perspectives

Ronald A. Lindsay

23

You’ve Got No Right: Cautionary thoughts on suicide and advanced chronic illness

Jennifer Michael Hecht

25

Reader Essays

39

Caroline vs. Smallpox: How one woman defeated man’s greatest enemy

Luis Granados

43

Harold Camping and the Second Stillborn Apocalypse

Edmund D. Cohen

Editorial

4

Do We Want to Convert the Religious?

Ronald A. Lindsay

Leading Questions

7

The Future of Irreligion, Part 1

A conversation with Barry A. Kosmin

Letters

11

Op-Eds

8

Who Stands for Us?

Tom Flynn

9

Egypt: Islamism Meets Realism

Christopher Hitchens

12

Right Problem, Wrong Solution

Arthur Caplan

13

The Booger on Atheism's Finger

Katrina Voss

14

Is Liberalism the Heir of Christianity?

Shadia B. Drury

15

Educating the Whole Student

Nat Hentoff

16

Mr. Smart, Heroman, and God

Tom Rees

17

Unreasonable Optimism

Steven Doloff

Departments

51

Church-State Update
Political Tsunamis

Edd Doerr

53

Great Minds
Huckleberry Finn, American Secularist

Reid Hardaway

54

Living without Religion
Is There a Place for Environmentalism in Humanism?

John Shook

55

Humanism at Large
A Revolutionary Syllogism: Logic and the Declaration of Independence

Chris Edwards

Reviews

57

Multi-Secularism: A New Agenda

by Paul Kurtz
reviewed by Floris van den Berg

59

Investigating Christian Privilege and Religious Oppression in the United States

edited by Warren J. Blumenfeld, Khyati Y. Joshi, and Ellen E. Fairchild
reviewed by Tom Flynn

61

An Enlightened Philosophy: Can an Atheist Believe Anything?

by Geoff Crocker
reviewed by Robert M. Price

62

Fading Faith: The Rise of the Secular Age

by James A. Haught
reviewed by Edd Doerr

Poems

Dorothy Sutton

38 - Arts and Sciences: Finding Design

60 - Icarus Dreams of Darwin

15

Science and Religion: Confrontation or Accommodation? (Introduction)

Tom Flynn

16

The Need for Accommodation

Eugenie C. Scott

20

The Need for Confrontation

P Z Myers

23

Why Religion Must Be Confronted

Victor J. Stenger

26

Toward Common Cause

Chris Mooney

30

Repackaging Humanism as ‘Spirituality’: Religion’s New Wedge Strategy for Higher Education

Ryan Cragun and Barry Kosmin

34

Human Rights in China and Japan: The Pot Calling the Kettle Black

Irving Louis Horowitz

37

Speaking Truth to Dr. Pangloss

Alexander Saxton

41

Plato’s Ancient Error Leads to Modern Tragedy

Stephen J. Gallagher

Editorial

4

The Secular Blues

Tom Flynn

Leading Questions

8

The Future of Irreligion, Part 2

A conversation with Barry A. Kosmin

Letters

11

Op-Eds

9

Too Much Speech Is Sufficient

Wendy Kaminer

12

Values in America

Tibor Machan

13

Have the Arab Revolutions Defeated the Orientalist Discourse?

Shadia B. Drury

14

Bowling Together

Tom Rees

Departments

48

Church-State Update
April Fools’ Day 2011

Edd Doerr

49

Great Minds
Ashley Montagu: A Commentator on Nearly Everything Human

Jeannette Lowen

54

God On Trial
Honor Among Mormons

Keith Taylor

55

Politically Speaking
The Case for Progressive Taxation

Philip Howard

57

Humanism at Large
‘Humanism? What’s That?’

Lawrence Rifkin

Reviews

59

The Moral Landscape: How Science Can Determine Human Values

by Sam Harris
Reviewed by Wayne Alt

62

The Unbelievers: The Evolution of Modern Atheism

by S.T. Joshi
Reviewed by Tom Flynn

Poem

58

The Three Great Ideas of Yacouba Sawadogo

Brooke Horvath