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An Interview with Ron Millar – PAC Coordinator for the Center for Freethought Equality

April 12, 2017 | by Scott Jacobsen | 0 Comments

Scott Douglas Jacobsen: What’s your own story? How did you get into the Freethought Equality business? Was there much of a family background? My family has no history in atheist and humanist politics. I was raised in a fundamentalist Christian church and enjoyed interacting with many of the people there, but their narrow view of […] Read more

Hypocrisy: The Left Needs to Rebuild Trust

April 11, 2017 | by Helen Pluckrose | 0 Comments

The current obsession with hypocrisy has special significance for the Left. Evolutionary psychology and Moral Foundations Theory shed light on this. Read more

Online Hate Speech and Sexual Threats- How Women can Fight Back

April 10, 2017 | by Madelaine Hanson | 0 Comments

One of my closest friends is outspoken, beautiful, intelligent and political. Like a lot of women who engage in activism online, she receives a fair amount of sexist abuse, threats and harassment. So when she asked me how I deal with the hatred I also often receive, I had to think pretty hard before giving […] Read more

An “Ever-closer Union” is Driving the EU Further Apart

April 10, 2017 | by Emile Yusupoff | 0 Comments

The Drive Towards a United Europe is Self-defeating. With 60 years having passed since the Treaty of Rome, the European Union and its predecessors have now shaped Europe for almost as long as the Soviet Union did. It is not an unnoticed irony that the EU’s 60th has coincided with the confirmation of the United […] Read more

Reflections on the Gender Pay Gap

April 8, 2017 | by CNLifestyle | 0 Comments

By Beatrice Louis and Scott Douglas Jacobsen #EqualPayDay is over. With it, we find the regular slew of mutual recriminations. While liberals resolved to fight the good fight to decrease the gender pay gap, Conservatives have re-posted and rebooted a number of videos, and articles, intent on destroying what they like to phrase as the ‘pay […] Read more

Stop Telling Secular Western Women to be Quiet

April 8, 2017 | by Madelaine Hanson | 0 Comments

Today, I got up and opened my laptop. Immediately, I see a barrage of comments and inbox messages calling me a ‘feminazi’ a ‘slut’ and a ‘stupid c****’. My crime? I made a sarcastic post on modesty culture. Did I ‘ask for it’ by publicly flaunting my views? Should I just shut up? It’s 4pm […] Read more

An Interview with Christine M. Shellska – President, Atheist Alliance International

April 8, 2017 | by Scott Jacobsen | 0 Comments

In this interview, Christine M. Shellska discusses atheism worldwide and its demographics, and the work of Atheist Alliance International. Read more

Is It Wrong to Assume Arab Countries Violate Women’s Rights?

April 7, 2017 | by Sarah Mills | 0 Comments

No country has benefit - especially Arab Countries - or has been shown to benefit, from the mistreatment of half its population. Women deserve better. Read more

An Interview with Jim G. Helton – President of Tri-State Freethinkers

April 7, 2017 | by Scott Jacobsen | 0 Comments

Scott Douglas Jacobsen: So many terms float around the Web, but they’re generally overlapping, such as secular humanist, bright, and so on. For the Tri-State Freethinkers, what is the definition of a freethinker? Basically, somebody who makes decisions using science, logic, and reason without dogma. How did you become a freethinker? It started with my […] Read more

Popular Trends and How They Affect the Problem of Witch Hunting in Zimbabwe

April 6, 2017 | by Takudza Mazwienduna | 0 Comments

Witchcraft has become one of the fundamental beliefs in Zimbabwe such that it is regarded as a reality. However, there is no evidence to support it. Read more

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