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September 2019

September 23, 2019
A person with integrity doesn't claim to know supernatural things that he or she cannot...
September 20, 2019
In which we meet our hero, on a hot, snowy night, in a future New...
September 18, 2019
We have kids because we believe that, whatever struggles or setbacks they face along the...
September 16, 2019
[Editor's Note: If the wild incompetence and racism of the Trump administration makes you feel...
September 13, 2019
I came across Vienna Teng while reading up on hopepunk for the article I published...
September 13, 2019
Especially in dark times, stories of hope and utopia show us how the world could...
September 11, 2019
The strange and curious sect of EnlightenNext, a cult that peacefully dissolved when its founder...
September 09, 2019
In the 1970s, West Virginia fundamentalist Christians staged a campaign of violence against public schools.
September 06, 2019
Much will be lost, and it's right to grieve for that loss, but giving in...
September 04, 2019
This week, I published my first ever column for NBC News' opinion section: "Americans increasingly...
September 02, 2019
Electrons and quarks, galaxies and black holes, electromagnetic radiation, DNA and cells, gravity, molecular bonds,...

August 2019

August 30, 2019
Inequality has reached crisis levels. We can change the basic assumptions that society is built...
August 28, 2019
Brazil's president views the Amazon as nothing but virgin resources to be plundered for profit.
August 26, 2019
Humanism means helping people, and secular humanism means doing it without supernatural religion.
August 23, 2019
The Fountainhead bombed at the box office because of, not in spite of, Ayn Rand's...
August 21, 2019
The secular era continues to roll onwards: Denominations are shrinking, churches are closing, and high-profile...
August 19, 2019
The snake-handlers and miracle men of evangelical Appalachia.
August 17, 2019
This would have been better if I had posted it last month, but some messages...
August 16, 2019
Even the grand doyenne of individualism turned out not to be as self-reliant as her...
August 14, 2019
Religion is fading all over the world, in places you might expect and in places...
August 12, 2019
Many in-person atheist groups are struggling, but freethought is alive and well in online communities.
August 09, 2019
Ayn Rand versus Hollywood censorship.
August 07, 2019
Another former Christian fundamentalist discovers the failure of the anti-dating, virginity-obsessed belief system he taught...
August 05, 2019
Churches are shrinking, secularism is soaring, and humanist values wield ever-greater strength in public life.
August 02, 2019
How and why the film version of The Fountainhead compresses and changes the plot of...

July 2019

July 31, 2019
My home state sets an ambitious goal to completely decarbonize its economy.
July 29, 2019
The Green Revolution saved billions from starvation, but more challenges lie ahead.
July 26, 2019
The history and evolution of cities, and what it means that humanity is now an...
July 24, 2019
This may be the first time in American history that we're being dragged backwards to...
July 22, 2019
Mainstream magazines, newspapers, television shows, radio programs and other general media rarely allow a direct...
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