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June/July 2022

Humanism and Wokism

Volume 42, No. 4

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Top Secret: A Humanist Opera in One Act
Volume 42, No. 4
June/July 2022

Look around the world and you see religious fundamentalists vying for power. When they get it, they force everyone else to obey their rules. They are hard to stop. Today it is happening in the Middle East; a few centuries ago, it was in Europe. This opera tells the horrifying story of fundamentalists gaining total …

‘Firsts’ of the Freethought Trail
Volume 42, No. 4
June/July 2022

The Freethought Trail (www.freethought-trail.org) is the Council for Secular Humanism’s online tribute to some 185 radical-reform history sites. All are located in west-central New York State (between Rochester and Rome; very roughly, within 120 miles of the Robert Green Ingersoll Birthplace Museum in Dresden, New York). The Trail focuses on the nineteenth and early twentieth …

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Looking Back



Appreciating the Unknown Ingersoll
Volume 38, No. 4
June / July 2018

Ingersoll was a brilliant man and a rousing orator, but he wasn’t always ahead of his time.


Ingersoll, the Premature Feminist
Volume 38, No. 4
June / July 2018

Almost alone among Golden Age freethinkers, Ingersoll’s ideas about women would not seem out of place today.


Freethought and Fury
Volume 38, No. 4
June / July 2018

The story of an epic battle between freethought and censorship.


Appreciating the Unknown Ingersoll
Volume 38, No. 4
June / July 2018

Ingersoll was a brilliant man and a rousing orator, but he wasn’t always ahead of his time.


Ingersoll, the Premature Feminist
Volume 38, No. 4
June / July 2018

Almost alone among Golden Age freethinkers, Ingersoll’s ideas about women would not seem out of place today.