Author: Andrea Szalanski
Andrea Szalanski began work for what is now the Center for Inquiry in 1983.
She was the managing editor for Free Inquiry and editor of the Secular
Humanist Bulletin until 2017. Over the years, she also performed public
relations, editorial, and production duties for many CFI endeavors.
Tom Flynn: Champion for Freethought
Thomas W. Flynn died suddenly August 23, 2021. Those who knew him personally and professionally were shocked and saddened. We had looked forward to many more years of his contributions, even though at the time of his death at age sixty-six he had accomplished much more than most people. Flynn was a scholar and a …
Obituary: Tibor R. Machan
Machan will be most remembered for his role in publishing the libertarian magazine Reason and the establishment of the Reason Foundation.
Immigration Limits: Less and Less Politically Incorrect
A review of How Many Is Too Many? The Progressive Argument for Reducing Immigration into the United States, by Philip Cafaro.
Gerald A. Larue, Humanist Laureate, 1916–2014
Gerald A. Larue, a senior editor of Free Inquiry and a Laureate of the International Academy of Humanism (a program of the Council for Secular Humanism), died September 17, 2014, at the age of ninety-eight.
Margherita Hack (1922–2013)
Margherita Hack, a leading astrophysicist and political activist in Italy, died at age ninety-one in June 2013.
Why Not a Mormon for President?
Could I Vote for a Mormon for President? An Election-Year Guide to Mitt Romney’s Religion, by Ryan T. Cragun and Rick Phillips (Washington, D.C.: Strange Violin Editions, 2012, ISBN 978-0-9837484-5-8) 132 pp. Paperback, $12.95. Before this review can proceed, we must accept two assumptions: an avowed secularist has no chance of becoming president in this …
Irving Louis Horowitz (1929–2012)
One cannot discuss modern sociology without understanding the contributions of Irving Louis Horowitz. One of his best-known accomplishments is the system he created for measuring quality of life in societies by comparing a state’s aggressiveness toward its citizens in terms of rates of imprisonment and more-violent actions such as executions as opposed to the civil …
Goodbye to a Fine, Fierce Friend
Christopher Hitchens first appeared in the pages of Free Inquiry in Fall 1996 as the subject of an interview—rather lengthy at six pages—that focused on his investigation of Mother Teresa, that icon of religious sacrifice. His book The Missionary Position: Mother Teresa in Theory and Practice (Verso) had come out the year before. His goal …
When Crisis Is Chronic
At what point does an illness go from being a challenge in one’s life to becoming one’s life? The progress of the transformation is so gradual, the change so nearly imperceptible, that one barely has time to realize that while a short-term coping strategy is helpful, a long-term plan is critical to the well-being of …