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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
Secular Activism and Latino Nones: An Interview with Dr. Juhem Navarro-Rivera
“[T]here are more people using their secular label as a way to move forward and counteract the attacks on women, the attacks on science, and the attacks on facts, based on what their secular values are... 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