The Rise of Christian Nationalism
What was a nice Jewish girl from Brooklyn doing attending megachurches across the United States, going to creationist textbook fairs, and traveling with the Ten Commandments monument? Investigative journalist Michelle Goldberg tells us in... Read More
Can Meditation Be Bad for You?
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 disturbed me to this day. A man who had just come... Read More
The Right to Religious Expression at the Air Force Academy
Stories about religious intolerance at the United States Air Force Academy (USAFA) started hitting the media in November 2004 with the Colorado Springs Gazette taking the lead. The problem of religious favoritism and intolerance was... Read More
The Bishop, the Statesman, and the Wren Cross: A Lesson in American Secularism
Halfway down one wall of the Wren Chapel at the College of William and Mary in Williamsburg, Virginia, is a plaque in honor of Bishop James Madison, who is often confused with his more famous... Read More
THE HUMANIST INTERVIEW A Brief History of Jonathan Miller
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 to a psychiatrist father and a novelist mother, he went on... Read More
The Female Nature: A Woman’s Destiny?
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 of the majority opinion in the April 18 Supreme Court ruling... Read More
Faith in Hiding: Are There Secular Grounds for Banning Abortion?
The Declaration of Independence asserts our rights to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness, but conflicts between these rights are commonplace. The extreme pro-life, anti-abortion position states that if there's a conflict between an... Read More
