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Crisis pregnancy centers try to trick women out of having abortions—and more than ever, they’re a big business.

Efforts to distance contraception from abortion have created a false dichotomy that ill-serves real women, who may turn to contraception or abortion to regulate their fertility.

The violence of ISIS is deeply rooted not just in Islam but in the entire Abrahamic religious tradition.

Though he is now dead, the rationalist activist known as Periyar still influences social change in India.

Krishnasamy Veeramani is a lawyer turned social activist who fights for humanism in South India.

The historical evidence as well as theoretical considerations should make it perfectly clear that the search for truth is not a morally or politically neutral endeavor.

Schweitzer’s very influential critical account of Jesus includes much of importance that more recent scholarship accepts, as well as elements that have undertsandably found little favor.

Conceding from its opening move that humanism is a religion, the American Humanist Association damaged the movement while defending one prisoner’s rights.

Americans are fooling themselves if they think they can escape disease threats in far-off lands.

Getting atheists to talk about death is hard—but vitally important for the movement.

The concerns of those worried about insulting Islam are seriously misplaced.

Letters from the February/March 2015 issue of Free Inquiry, in response to the December 2014/January 2015 issue.

A call for concern on climate change and a look at the November election results.

Part 4 of the entire four-part article just as the author submitted it.

Part 3 of the entire four-part article just as the author submitted it.

Part 2 of the entire four-part article just as the author submitted it.

Does the world need one more label for people who lead lives of reason? Yes, and that label is genuism.

Part 1 of the entire four-part article just as the author submitted it.

Society tried to bully me out of thinking for myself. Eventually it failed.

The delights of this life are not perfect and far from perfectly distributed; but since they’re all the heaven we get, let’s appreciate them deeply.

At long last, a look at the Garden of Eden story from the serpent’s perspective.

First Council for Secular Humanism Executive Director, 1925–2014

A review of The Necessity of Secularism: Why God Can’t Tell Us What to Do, by Ronald A. Lindsay.

A review of Life After Faith: The Case for Secular Humanism, by Philip Kitcher.

A review of Nature’s God: The Heretical Origins of the American Republic, by Matthew Stewart.

A poem from the February/March 2015 issue of Free Inquiry.

Brief book reviews from the February/March 2015 issue of Free Inquiry.

To understand the distressing growth of conservative Christianity and Islam, we must understand the history and cultural dynamics of the so-called “wretched of the earth.”

Adherence to scientism has been repaying handsomely, economically as well as culturally, whereas betting on anti-scientistic dogmas threatens the growth of knowledge.

Honest atheism is not tragic, but for some it’s genuinely frightening. The answer is more honesty.

Modern statistics could not have taken shape without the prior discovery of evolution, which helped legitimize and secularize randomness.

Appeals to God cannot settle ethical dilemmas. God can’t tell us what to do; we need to figure that out for ourselves.

A look back at thirty years of skipping Christmas and at how things are different now.

Considering the wonders that science reveals, why does anyone need the supernatural?

It’s all obvious and predictable enough: of course high status tends to confer immunity from the social pressure and sanctions that keep the rest of us in line.

Civility is valuable, yet not so much so that the state—or a university—can properly require it.

Western liberals underestimate the extent to which, in the Arab world, Islamic extremism is a mainstream phenomenon.

Vanquishing evil cannot be the goal of any state or empire for the simple reason that evil, violence, and injustice are the foundation blocks of every state, not to mention empires.

A libertarian opposed to most government programs wrestles with his enjoyment of the programs he likes.

As a moral thinker, Seneca leaves Jesus in the dust. Why do we never hear someone ask, “What would Seneca do?”