Journalist and author Susan Jacoby joins Host Larry Mantle to discuss her new book Freethinkers: A History of American Secularism. Jacoby’s book discusses “freethinkers,” or secular thinkers, ...

Spengler reviews Jody Bottum’s new book. Excerpt: Joseph Bottum, by contrast, examines post-Protestant secular religion with empathy, and contends that it gained force and staying power by recasting ...

Secularism is deeply historical and contextual. American secularism strikes a balance between the separation of religion and the state and the acceptance of a public role for religion. Because of this ...

Millions of Americans are walking away from religion; over the past few decades, we have witnessed the largest increase of secularism in American history. Although generally more religious, on average ...

THE coexistence of the “godly” and the “godless” of traditional piety and modern secularism has been a characteristic of Western civilization since the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. The rise ...

The free exercise of religion — or, more precisely, the free exercise of conservative Christian religions — is increasingly assuming the cultural, and even legal, stature of an inalienable American ...

With the death of the prodigiously productive, rigorously intelligent and reportedly irascible Paul Kurtz in October at the age of 86, American secular humanism lost, as it were, one of its guiding ...

Millions of Americans are walking away from religion; over the past few decades, we have witnessed the largest increase of secularism in American history. Although generally more religious, on average ...

If there is one legal case that readers should be following but probably haven’t heard much (or anything) about yet, it is the case concerning St. Isidore of Seville Catholic Virtual School in ...

It is no secret that the Bush Administration is engaged in the most radical assault on the separation of church and state in American history. The apostles of religious correctness never hesitate to ...

It is a sign of the times: Harvard University appointed an atheist as its chief chaplain. To many it was a jarring announcement, or perhaps a story in The Onion. To others, it was yet another example ...