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Trump education policies favor vouchers and charters, further disadvantaging his strongly-rural voter base.

Asimov dared to ask how humanity would be saved from enervation brought on by its own success.

Asimov considers science fiction’s obligation toward religious sensitivities.

Why Nigeria needs humanism, so very intensely.

How an eclectic ecumenical minister’s theological quest ended in secular humanism.

Jerking, howling, swooning Pentacostalism is the fastest-growing style of Christianity.

Frederick Crews’s new book paints Freud as a swindling purveyor of pseudoscience.

Burton L. Mack is a prominent scholar in the field of early Christian history. He is the author of an extensive body of work examining the origins of Christianity up to and including the all-important fourth century CE, when it became the official religion of the Roman Empire.

Numerous books offer an introduction to humanism. Many more acquaint the reader with naturalism. There’s an absolute torrent of “primers” on atheism. But secularism?

As a rule, Free Inquiry does not review books that are self-published or issued by subsidy or vanity presses. An exception is made for A Reluctant Agnostic because of the work’s unique character.

Arlindo Oliveira, president of the Instituto Superior Técnico (Lisbon, Portugal) and a professor of computer science and engineering, wishes to inform us of our possible digital future by explaining the development and present state of work in computer science, cell biology, and neuroscience.

Because two buildings are going up, both across the street from where I live, I get a stereo effect.

Homer: the song

Is eternal

An olive tree the bed

Of home

The John Templeton Foundation spends lavishly—and sometimes questionably—in order to oppose naturalism in philosophy.

How to make absolutely sure that some high-demand cult will take over your life. If that’s really what you want.

A balanced approach toward the problems we face will demand the best of science and philosophy.

Anti-naturalism comes in two flavors, and both may be reactions against a truly irresistible scientific naturalism.

In a world of wicked problems, philosophy must function in a more engaged and interdisciplinary way.

What does the Templeton Foundation spend its money on? Here are eighteen examples.

No, philosophy does not compete with science. To the contrary, neither is complete without the other.

If philosophical naturalism is as important as secular humanists think it is, we need to be ready to rise to its defense.

“The paradox of identity liberalism is that it paralyzes the capacity to think and act in a way that would actually accomplish the things it professes to want.”

Do church-run charities still have a place in a more secular future? If not, what about humanist charities?

A punch may hurt a Nazi, but it won’t change his or her mind.

Philosophy is under attack from many sides, but it is far too important to give up on it.

Navel-gazing and explorations of the Self may lead the Left to destroy itself from within.

Don’t lament the loss of the “free media.” On the contrary, embrace the post-truth world as a wake-up call.

Now there’s proof that supernatural claims of religion hardly suit.

The Arab world must return to the scholariship and cosmopolitanism of Bayt Al Hikma. The Internet may show the way.

Nicole Scott has been named the new managing editor of Free Inquiry magazine. For the past three years, Nicole Scott has been managing editor of CFI’s newsletter The American Rationalist and assistant editor of Free Inquiry and Skeptical Inquirer magazines.

I agree with Shadia Drury’s main points about monotheism (“The Blight of Monotheism, FI, October/November 2017); however, I’m a bit perplexed by her assertions about Socrates’s beliefs concerning God (or the gods) and moral behavior. She states that Socrates “believed that the alliance of religion with morality would provide the latter with invaluable support.” If …

Tragically, Al Gore’s latest Inconvenient book and film project manages not to mention overpopulation, contraception access, and abortion rights. Why, Al, why?

Examining the gospels like cold-case evidence is as absurd as it is unreliable.

I’ve forsaken religious certainty—but not without being wistful about it.

Finally, the deity consents to an interview.

Brown was a passionate lecturer on women’s rights at conferences and other events throughout the world.

America’s religious liberty impulse and its Enlightenment impulse have been magnified over time and now tilt overwhelmingly toward the former.

The Christian Fallacy cherry-picks intriguing but highly dubious hypotheses … and cobbles together from them a chain of weak links.

Dr. Johnson

We know

Patriotism is the last refuge of a scoundrel

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September 30 marks International Blasphemy Rights Day (IBRD), which the Center for Inquiry has observed since its beginning.¹ IBRD celebrates the right of authors, artists, and dissidents to treat religious matters as they see fit, even to the point of offending believers.