Selected articles available online.
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Transforming Humanity: Fantasty? Dream? Nightmare?
The Debate over Enhancements (Introduction)
Ronald A. Lindsay
Enhancement Anxiety
Russell Blackford
Against the Enhancement Project: Two Perspectives
Adrienne Asch and James E. Block
After Happiness, Cyborg Virtue
James Hughes
Can We Make More Moral Brains?
John Shook
Exoplanets and the End of Terrestrial Religion
Andrew Fiala
Evolutionary Biology for Everyone
John A. Frantz
Religion’s Attractions, Humanism’s Challenge: The Power of Religion’s Message
Ronald A. Lindsay
Exposing Dominionism
A Conversation with Rachel Tabachnick
A Discussion Long Overdue
Tom Flynn
What Is a Sound Atheism?
Tibor Machan
New Theocrats vs. ‘New Atheists’
Wendy Kaminer
The Problem of Evil – Part 2: When the Only Defense Is a Fierce Offense
Shadia B. Drury
Does Religion Bring Happiness?
Tom Rees
Let Us Stand in Judgment of Judgment Day
Katrina Voss
The Evolutionary Elevator Pitch
P Z Myers
Church-State Update
Deforestation, Overpopulation, and Our Future
Edd Doerr
Requiem for an Ancestor
Lisa Rosati
God of Liberty: A Religious History of the American Revolution by Thomas S. Kidd
Reviewed by Debra R. Neill
Revolutionary Deists: Early America’s Rational Infidels by Kerry Walters
Reviewed by Bill Cooke
Sentinels In Honor of Arthur C. Clarke Edited by Gregory Benford and George Zebrowski
Reviewed by Tom Flynn
The Conspiracy against the Human Race by Thomas Ligotti
Reviewed by Tom Flynn
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Bridging the Gulf: At Last, Social Science Measures Secularity (Introduction)
Tom Flynn
The Social Science of Secularity
Frank L. Pasquale
Who Are These Doubters Anyway? A Look Back at the Demographics of Unbelief
Tom Flynn
The Evangelical Origins of the American Civil War
David Goldfield
Easter Explained: What the Sacrificial Death of the Son Tells Us about the Father
Peter W. Sperlich
Pascal’s Wager
Adam Nehr
Atheists for Jesus? A Caution from the Epistemology of Ethics
Daniel C. Maguire
Cranks, Behinds, and God
Lawrence Rifkin
Tom Flynn Responds to Daniel Maguire and Lawrence Rifkin
Excrement Eventuates!
Tom Flynn
From Faith to Critical Thinking
A Conversation with Lee Salisbury
Goodbye to a Fine, Fierce Friend
Andrea Szalanski
In Defense of Richard Dawkins
Christopher Hitchens
The Vatican, Stem-Cell Research, and Me
Arthur Caplan
Obama’s Growing Torture Record
Nat Hentoff
Creeping Secular Humanism
James A. Haught
Remembrances of an Enduring People
P Z Myers
Church-State Update
Personhood and Human Rights
Edd Doerr
Great Minds
Critias of Athens
James H. Dee
It’s Only Natural
Domesticated Religion and Democracy
John Shook
God on Trial
Malevolent Design
Ron Cordero
Faith and Reason
Snip the Snip
Edan Tasca
Humanism at Large
Mark Twain Tries—Again—to Become a Christian
Joel Welty
Darwin the Writer by George Levine
Reviewed by Lauren Becker
Faith No More: Why People Reject Religion by Phil Zuckerman
Reviewed by Ryan T. Cragun
Ted Richer
At the Astapovo Station
Excreta
Churches
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Why aren’t all the articles available online?
The History of Humanism (Introduction)
Gordon Gamm
The Enlightenment, Naturalism, and the Secularization of Values
Alan Charles Kors
The Basis of Paul’s Ideas of Christ
George A. Wells
Grog and Zog: A Parable for Secular Humanists (and Everyone Else)
Dan Carsen
An Unprecedented Time in Human History
Ronald A. Lindsay
The Science of Free Will and Other Matters
A Conversation with Daniel C. Dennett
Why Seculars Don’t Sing
Tom Flynn
Why Atheism Demands Social Justice
Greta Christina
Who’s Afraid of Scientism?
Russell Blackford
The Trouble with Gods
Ophelia Benson
Schools Show ‘Zero Tolerance’ . . . of the Constitution
Nat Hentoff
Ready for Prime-Time
Katrina Voss
What’s So Smart About Unbelief?
Tom Rees
Is Freedom of Religion a Mistake?
Shadia B. Drury
Let’s Be Mean to Deen
Arthur L. Caplan
CFI’s Celebration of Daniel Dennett’s Breaking the Spell
Andy Norman
We Grieve for His Silenced Voice; We Rejoice in His Memory: Honoring Christopher Hitchens
Edward Tabash
Church-State Update
Whose Freedom of Religion and Conscience?
Edd Doerr
God on Trial
The Problem of the Parables
Robert M. Price
Faith and Reason
Watching Intelligent Design
Alexander Nussbaum
It’s Only Natural
Celebrating Science
John Shook
Arguably: Essays by Christopher Hitchens
Reviewed by Brooke Horvath
The Good News Club: The Christian Right’s Stealth Assault on America’s Children by Katherine Stewart
Reviewed by Edd Doerr
John Emerson Roberts: Kansas City’s “Up-to-Date” Freethought Preacher by Ellen Roberts Young
Reviewed by Tom Flynn
Literary Changes at FREE INQUIRY
Rill
by Austin MacRae
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Once and for All, Is America a Christian Nation? (Introduction)
Tom Flynn
The Myth of America’s Christian Heritage
[View article as .PDF file]
Kerry Walters
The Christian Nation Fiction, Then and Now
[View article as .PDF file]
Susan Jacoby
Five Reasons the United States Is Not a Christian Nation
Rob Boston
Our UnChristian Nation
Hector Avalos
Ought America to Be a Christian Nation?
David K. Clark
Faiths and Public Affairs
Tibor R. Machan
Research Report: How Secular Humanists
(and Everyone Else) Subsidize Religion in the U.S.
[View article as .PDF file]
Ryan T. Cragun, Stephanie Yeager, and Desmond Vega
Triple Play
Tom Flynn
Reason Rally 2012
What Do You Say to 20,000 Wet Atheists?
P Z Myers
Do We Concede the Ground of Death Too Easily?
Greta Christina
Who’s Oppressing Whom?
Ophelia Benson
American Conceit: The Case of Iran
Shadia B. Drury
The Intimate Dance of Religion and Nationalism
Tom Rees
Church-State Update
Vouchers vs. Public Education
Edd Doerr
God on Trial
On Gods and Placebos
Martin Jaffe
Humanism at Large
Unreasonable Rally
Josh Bunting and Ian Murphy
Did Jesus Exist? The Historical Argument for Jesus of Nazareth by Bart D. Ehrman
Reviewed by George A. Wells
The Future of Blasphemy: Speaking of the Sacred in an Age of Human Rights by Austin Dacey
Reviewed by Ronald A. Lindsay
Up North
by Rick Ferris
Selected articles available online.
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Secular Humanism With A Pulse: The New Activists (Introduction)
Lauren Becker
Sparking a Fire in the Humanist Heart
James Croft
Secular Service in Michigan
Mindy Miner
Campus Service Work
Franklin Kramer and Derek Miller
Diversity and Secular Activism
Alix Jules
Live Well and Help Others Live Well
Bill Cooke
Grief Beyond Belief
Rebecca Hensler
Humanists Care about Humans!
Bob Stevenson
Not Enough Marthas
Reba Boyd Wooden
The Making of an Angry Atheist Advocate
EllenBeth Wachs
Taking Care of Our Own
Hemant Mehta
A Tale of Two Tomes
Michael B. Paulkovich
Humanism and Politics
Ronald A. Lindsay
The Rise of Islamic Creationism, Part 1
Chris Mooney interviews Johan Braeckman
Are LGBTs Saving Marriage?
Tom Flynn
Gag Me with a Spoon
Arthur L. Caplan
Atheism’s Third Wave
P Z Myers
The State and the Marriage Business
Russell Blackford
Sloppy-Seconds Atheists
Katrina Voss
Who Cares What Happens to Dropouts?
Nat Hentoff
CFI Gives Women a Voice with ‘Women in Secularism’ Conference
Julia Lavarnway
Relaunching the International Academy of Humanism
Stephen Law
Church-State Update
Vaginas and Vouchers: On to November
Edd Doerr
African American Humanism
Slaves Like Us
Sikivu Hutchinson
Religion for Atheists: A Non-believer’s Guide to the Uses of Religion by Alain de Botton
Reviewed by John Shook
The Atheist’s Guide to Reality: Enjoying Life without Illusions by Alex Rosenberg
Reviewed by Jean Kazez
What Jesus Didn’t Say by Gerd Lüdemann
Reviewed by Robert M. Price
Letters from an Atheist Nation: Godless Voices of America in 1903 edited by Thomas Lawson
Reviewed by Tom Flynn
Hannah Arendt: Radical Conservative edited by Irving Louis Horowitz
Reviewed by Brooke Horvath
Sideshow
by Philip Appleman
Passport Application
by Maryann Corbett
Selected articles available online.
Why aren’t all the articles available online?
Does Secular Humanism Have a Political Agenda? (Introduction)
Tom Flynn
Saddle Up, Progressives!
Patricia Schroeder
Conservatism for Seculars
Razib Khan
Secular Humanism Has a Political Agenda, and It’s Not In Favor of Liberty
Ronald Bailey
Secularism’s Place in Politics
Greg Laden
What Humanism Might Learn from Hip Hop
Anthony B. Pinn
The Manic Triumphalism of Richard Rorty
Stephen J. Gallagher
Overgeneralization: The Achilles Heel of Apocalyptic Atheism?
R. Georges Delamontagne
Hell Freezes Over! / Minding the Lines
Tom Flynn
The Rise of Islamic Creationism, Part 2
A Conversation with Johan Braeckman
Up With Secularism!
Russell Blackford
Infighting or Healthy Debate?
Greta Christina
Big Talk. No Action. Not Bad.
Arthur L. Caplan
The Decay of American Democracy, Part 1
Shadia B. Drury
Obama Drones Come Home to Roost
Nat Hentoff
On Being a Scientist
Joshua Fost
Church-State Update
Overpopulation, Climate Change, and November 6
Edd Doerr
Faith and History
Another Holy Horror: The Taipings
James A. Haught
Point/Counterpoint
Spirited Naturalism: A Heretical Manifesto
Andy Norman
Rebuking the Foul Spirit
Tom Flynn
Living Without Religion
Why I Am Not a Jehovah’s Witness
James Zimmerman
Humanism and the Arts
A Linguistic Consequence of Music Appreciation
John A. Frantz
Nonbeliever Nation: The Rise of the Secular Americans by David Niose
Reviewed by Phil Zuckerman
A Judeo-Islamic Nation: The Evolution of America’s Political Theology by Thomas Mates
Reviewed by Tom Flynn
Could I Vote for a Mormon for President? An Election-Year Guide to Mitt Romney’s Religion by Ryan T. Cragun and Rick Phillips
Reviewed by Andrea Szalanski
Candidate Without a Prayer: An Autobiography of a Jewish Atheist in the Bible Belt by Herb Silverman
Reviewed by Ed Buckner
The Messiah Game: A Comedy of Terrors, Book I by Tom Flynn
Reviewed by Robert M. Price
Of Fools
by Marcia Karp
Anonymous
by R. Nemo Hill
Gore Vidal (1925–2012)
S.T. Joshi
Irving Louis Horowitz (1929–2012)
Andrea Szalanski
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