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Rules Are for Schmucks: Capitulating to Islam

There have been several news items from Australia and New Zealand in the past few days evidencing a disturbing trend, not limited to those countries, of cowering in the face of militant Islam. Item #1 was... Read More

Can Bacteria Help Us Understand Religion?

RELIGION IS one of the most powerful forces in human society. Before the rise of the Christian Right in the United States and before Islamists turned planes into bombs and started beheading people on social media,... Read More

Humanism and the Challenge of Privilege

This article is an excerpt from chapter four of When Colorblindness Isn’t the Answer:  Humanism and the Challenge of Race (Pitchstone Publishing, 2017). This book is part of a series on practical humanism Dr. Pinn is... Read More

Integers

Growing up in another valley so far away as to be a different country—growing taller and growing leaner but somehow never wiser—between mountains the mining outfit was slowly carving up, slowly carting away, I can still... Read More

No, Mr. Douthat, We Don’t Need to Do That

In his Easter Sunday New York Times column, Ross Douthat wrote: “For the sake of their country, their culture, and their very selves, liberal post-Protestants should find a mainline congregation and starting [sic] attending every week.”... Read More

Film Review: The Case for Christ

Since I started writing film reviews, I’ve done three on movies that could properly be labeled as “right-wing,” either in a religious or political sense: God’s Not Dead 2, Hillary’s America: The Secret History of the Democratic... Read More

The Cartoon History of Humanism, Episode 53

View all episodes in the Cartoon History of Humanism series. Loyalty in Treason: The Christopher Hitchens Case In the age of social media it has become axiomatic that, no matter who you are, there is a... Read More

Review: The Most Hated Woman in America

Madalyn Murray O’Hair was the founder of American Atheists and a force to be reckoned with. Known as tough, unapologetic, and even brutal at times, including to those she loved, O’Hair was a true revolutionary for... Read More

Rules Are for Schmucks: The Censored UN Report

Politicians don’t want to hear what they don’t want to hear. That’s why some of them, like Sen. Marco Rubio (R-FL), have stopped holding town hall meetings with their constituents. Willful clapping of hands over the... Read More