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“Those who deny that overpopulation is a problem say the poor don’t consume much. Yet the poor want nothing more than to consume more.”

Why what the pope says in airplanes may not matter—and why our efforts to stem climate disaster may not either.

Another Bangladeshi secularist is slaughtered in broad daylight.

Given human nature, genocide is always a possibility.

Shutting down speech is authoritarianism in action.

It’s a long shot, but Donald Trump might cut the GOP’s ties to a toxic neoconservatism.

In the context of New Testament theology, forgiveness is incoherent and ultimately contradictory.

Letters in response to Free Inquiry Vol. 36, Issue 3.

Machan will be most remembered for his role in publishing the libertarian magazine Reason and the establishment of the Reason Foundation.

When I retired to Arizona in 2008, I never imagined—given its proximity to very liberal California and its distance from the prototypical “South”—that I would be living in the heart of the Southwest Bible Belt. But that is where I, an atheist, took up residence and began my postretirement career. As I am hardly one …

Reflections on politics and the growing body of research on Nones.

ISIS’s worst atrocity merely echoes one committed by Moses in the Old Testament.

What a journey—from Lutheran to fundamentalist to atheist . . . to atheist minister!

A modest proposal to take corporate personhood to its illogical conclusion.

“Beneath Jacoby’s gaze, each conversion proves exp
licable without treating the
‘spiritual’ matters—often thought central to any conversion experience—as in any way causally significant.”

“We are afraid that science has shown, or will soon show, that we can’t be what we want to be.”—Daniel Dennett

“With measured tones and expert scholarship, Mary Ziegler demonstrates that almost everything most of us think we know about Roe and its consequences is incorrect.”

Brief reviews from Free Inquiry Vol. 36, No. 4.

Oh, what a difference an “O” makes / In this land where separation of church and / State

Social scientists don’t use the word secular like we do—just one of the revelations in this far-ranging cover feature.

Unprecedented secularization across the world isn’t just news; in innumerable ways it is good news.

The future of unbelief may lie in greater diversity—and less rhetoric about unbelief.

Seculars of color are more numerous than ever, but movement groups may need to offer broader programming to attract them.

Our movement’s emphasis on individual choice may discourage adoption of optimal growth strategies.

The secular movement can develop in one of two ways, depending on what end point is desired. Then we’ll need a third plan.

The key challenge is to use our imaginations constructively to engage an increasingly skeptical and diverse American population and lead it toward unbelief.

CFI and the Richard Dawkins Foundation merge, creating the nation’s largest freethought organization.

Gays and lesbians changed their social position by coming out; we unbelievers can accomplish the same by coming forward.

Scalia, the great originalist, indulged in motivated reasoning at least as often as the justices and judges he ridiculed.

“As humanists and rationalists, how do we decide the
difference between selfishness and self-preservation?”

The term Islamophobia serves no unique purpose and tends to discourage any criticism of Islam whatever. It’s time to jettison it.

“Why were conditions in South Africa and East Germany treated as human-rights issues while those in Saudi Arabia were not?”

“Where does an egoistic faith such as Christianity take us? It leads to . . . a morality that is frozen in place as human experience accumulates.”

“. . . Being the strongest and wealthiest nation in the world is not an occasion for self-aggrandizement or self-congratulation. On the contrary, it means being the custodian of international peace and order”

Letters in response to Free Inquiry volume 36, issue 2.

Climate change, reproductive choice, and saving public education may be the most crucial issues in this election season.

“Paine would suffer for this book, but then he had suffered for every book he had ever written.”

“Take away from Genesis the belief that Moses was the author . . . and there remains nothing of Genesis but an anonymous book of stories, fables, and traditionary or invented absurdities, or of downright lies.”

“Why should Muslims part with their cherished convictions if Christians won’t part with theirs?”

“How much variety in types of politics can exist consistent with humanism?”