Its ability to withstand an assault by Christopher Hitchens is one testament to the hardiness of religious faith. (I wouldn't want him mad at... Read More

  What was a nice Jewish girl from Brooklyn doing attending megachurches across the United States, going to creationist textbook fairs, and traveling with... Read More

Back in 1979, when I was living in Pune, India, as a starry-eyed devotee of the infamous guru Bhagwan Rajneesh, something happened that has... Read More

Stories about religious intolerance at the United States Air Force Academy (USAFA) started hitting the media in November 2004 with the Colorado Springs Gazette... Read More

Humanists clearly reject the imposition of dogmatic thinking but must acknowledge the necessity of authoritative command ingrained in the structure of the U.S. Armed... Read More

This month's guests on HNN #20 are Harvard Law Prof. Alan M. Dershowitz, Humanistic Judaism founder Rabbi Sherwin Wine, and student gay rights activist... Read More

Halfway down one wall of the Wren Chapel at the College of William and Mary in Williamsburg, Virginia, is a plaque in honor of... Read More

As he approaches his seventy-third birthday on July 21, British intellectual and Renaissance man Jonathan Miller continues to enjoy an uncommonly varied career. Born... Read More

Don't give a woman the freedom to choose, because if you do she might just make the wrong choice. Or so goes the reasoning... Read More

The Declaration of Independence asserts our rights to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness, but conflicts between these rights are commonplace. The extreme... Read More