Growing up in Texas I came across more than my fair share of religious fundamentalists, many of whom were my best friends. Most of these people were just overzealous Christians eager to spread what they... Read More

In Imagine There’s No Heaven: How Atheism Helped Create The Modern World, author Mitchell Stephens delivers a readable, vibrant history of disbelief and atheistic thought, arguing persuasively that intellectual challenges to religious belief were a... Read More

It’s interesting to think that there is no archaeological evidence for the existence of Jesus Christ, or any of his followers. The Talpiot tomb has come close to proving the burial of Jesus and family,... Read More

In 1935 acerbic Minnesota novelist Sinclair Lewis wrote It Can’t Happen Here, a disturbing book about a fascist takeover in the United States. Fifty years later, Margaret Atwood published The Handmaid’s Tale, another disturbing book,... Read More

What age is too young for truth? Mary Anne Farah would say that children old enough to look at pictures are old enough to start being introduced to the truth about the wonderful world they... Read More

The myth persists. Even in our modern world, countless people believe that without God, one’s life has no purpose or meaning — that the lives of atheists are devoid of joy and happiness because they... Read More

Tom Standage’s self-imposed mandate is to assuage our technoterror. In books like his laudable study of the telegraph, The Victorian Internet (1998), and An Edible History of Humanity (2009), the author demonstrated, mostly successfully, that... Read More