In January the Chattanooga Times Free Press reported that a lawyer named David Fowler, representing the Family Action Council of Tennessee’s Constitutional Government Defense... Read More

On a brisk, blue-sky morning in the autumn of 2019, outside the New York State Supreme Court Building in Manhattan and across the street... Read More

In yet another sop to his white evangelical Christian base, President Donald Trump announced in January that his administration was issuing guidelines on religious... Read More

Fifty years ago, in 1970, the Missi­ssippi Supreme Court decided that the ban on the teaching of evolution in the state’s public schools was... Read More

Yuval Noah Harari is a thinker of big ideas. An Israeli historian, he wrote Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind (2011), about how we... Read More

I’ve been an atheist for more than forty years, but I didn’t arrive at that position by taking the light and easy path. I... Read More

Giving Greatest Good: Recently I heard someone arguing—with data to back up his point—that dollars donated to things like poverty, hunger, illiteracy, and disease... Read More

I find the term “Orwellian” is often applied appropriately. Unfortunately, you hear it a lot these days. President Trump’s tweet, not long after Iran... Read More

BY KATHERINE STEWART BLOOMSBURY PUBLISHING, 2020 352 PP.; $28.00 The mainstream media depicts the religious right as a monolithic group of evangelicals focused on... Read More

BY ALEX RYRIE BELKNAP PRESS 272 PP.; $27.95 In his book Unbelievers: An Emotional History of Doubt, author Alec Ryrie, a professor of the... Read More