Reason & Society

My previous post was heavy on the abstract and conceptual. More needs to be said about David Hoelscher's essay Atheism and the Class ...

As I do not regularly follow the blogosphere, I missed out on this article, which I was informed of only last week: Counterpunched: We Hav...

I'd have to think twice about wasting a dollar on Sidney Hook, so I got a friend to buy Sidney Hook Reconsidered (edited by Matthew J. ...

“Humanism at its core, at the heart of its ethical project, is the statement of a difficult problem, and not an elitist ideology offering si...

I received a handful of scattered responses via Facebook to my podcast of last Saturday, 11/17/12 Atheism & Humanism as Bourgeois Ideolo...

For the past couple of years I have planned to do this podcast. I didn't think I could squeeze all this into an hour, but I got it all ...

I read this biography early in 2008. Here are a few of my notes. LeBeau, Bryan F. The Atheist: Madalyn Murray O’Hair . New York: New Yo...

Click here for the Preface and Notes on Contributors, and eventually for other content: Tolerance and Revolution: A Marxist-non-Marxist Hu...

“Wrong life cannot be lived rightly.” – Theodor W. Adorno [1] Ethics as a philosophical or ideological subject is both social and individ...

This article is only partially available online without a subscription to High Beam Research: " The Survival of Humankind Is the Basi...

In previous posts I began to document Paul Kurtz's interaction with the Yugoslav Praxis School , particularly Svetozar Stojanović . Thi...

Here are a couple of more pertinent references. Re-enchantment: A New Enlightenment , Editorial by Paul Kurtz, Free Inquiry magazine , Vo...

Historical amnesia in the USA is quite severe. There are two breaks in historical continuity that directly affect us today. The first was th...

You are invited to listen to my Internet radio show newly named " Studies in a Dying Culture ," on " Think Twice Radio ...

In re: Paul Kurtz, " Naturalism and the Future ", Free Inquiry . Kurtz emphasizes the positive point of departure of philosophic...

I begin with an alarming note I received from Norm Allen , staffer at the Center for Inquiry and Director of African Americans for Humanism...