David Niose
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Nonbeliever Nation: The Rise of Secular Americans
“Religious freedom is a cherished American value,” writes David Niose in his new book, Nonbeliever Nation (Palgrave Macmillan, 2012), “but religious predominance is not.”... Read More
Corporate Power and Today’s Humanist
If there’s one concern that pervades virtually every major political and economic issue facing the United States today, it’s the question of corporate power... Read More
“Burn a Koran Day” and the Flames of Extremism
It’s fair to say that the fifteen minutes of fame recently afforded to Terry Jones—the once-obscure Florida preacher with the misguided plan to burn... Read More
No Agenda? A Humanist View of Justice Scalia
With the death Saturday of the conservative lion of the U.S. Supreme Court, Justice Antonin Scalia, we revisit David Niose's analysis of his jurisprudence... Read More
The Post-Theological Umbrella
Surely one of the biggest barriers keeping humanism from being a more prominent force in the United States is its nontheistic character. Two relevant... Read More