Older writings on secularism & other topics
State Department to open an office of "religious engagement"?, Salon, 18 August 2013
Beyond free speech: Blasphemy and equality, Psychology Today, 17 October 2012
A theory of ethical blasphemy, The Revealer, 11 October 2012
A spiritual defense of blasphemy,, The Revealer, 8 October 2012
Cognitive bias and the blame for Benghazi, Huffington Post, 3 October 2012
Blasphemy, religious hatred, and the United Nations, Huffington Post, 26 September 2012
Een wettelijk wapen tegen minderheden [A legal weapon against minorities], Volkskrant, 15 September 2012
Equality for impieties, The Revealer, 14 September 2012
The trouble with "religious hatred," The Revealer, 4 September 2012
A human right to blaspheme? The Revealer, 30 August 2012
The globalization of blasphemy, The Revealer, 18 July 2012
An open letter to CEO Jeff Smisek re: United Airlines' blasphemous safety video, Religion Dispatches, 28 June 2012
How blasphemy got personal, The Revealer, 25 June 2012
Indian Idol, Skeptical Inquirer online, 25 June 2012
Calvin's Geneva? The new international discourse of blasphemy, The Revealer, 12 June 2012
Whose blasphemy? 'Religious freedom' for atheists, Religion Dispatches, 24 May 2012
A deviant plot: Resisting gay rights at the UN, Islamic states mangle psychiatric consensus, English, Skeptical Inquirer online, 16 March 2012
Lang leve de blasfemie, Trouw, 14 January 2012
The Skeptical Canon, part 2, Skeptical Inquirer online, 14 September 2011
United
Nations affirms human right to blaspheme,
Religion Dispatches, 11
August 2011
There
is no religious freedom,
Religion Dispatches, 27 July 2011
Against
religious freedom (with
Colin Koproske), Dissent, Summer 2011
Egypt
needs science powered by people, not big projects,
Science and
Development Network, 21 July 2011
Het
ware geluid van Iran [The
true sound of Iran], Trouw, 25
September 2010
Decomposing humanism, Free Inquiry, September-October 2010
Muzzled
musicians, meet your match
[interview], Wall Street Journal, 19
August 2010
The
heresies of Christopher Hitchens,
Religion Dispatches, 29
June 2010
Satire
is
religion, Religion
Dispatches, 12 May 2010
Famous
atheist philosopher passes away, again,
Religion Dispatches, 23
April 2010
The
sound of freedom, Washington
Post/Newsweek "On Faith," 2 March 2010
The importance of what it feels like: A review of 36 Arguments for the
existence of God: A work of fiction, by Rebecca Newberger Goldstein,
Free Inquiry, February/March 2010
Exiled
in New York, Trouw, 2 February
2010
The
Left's
Blind Spot [interview], De
Groene Amsterdammer, 17 February 2010
Who's
afraid of
Shari'a? Dissent, 3 February 2010
The
decline of the decline of Arabic science,
Skeptical Inquirer
online, 21
January 2010
The
death of a
secularist, Religion Dispatches,
4 January 2010
Sharia-compliant
science, Skeptical Inquirer
online, 2 December 2009
Putting
God out of the ethics business,
Psychology Today, 2 November 2009
Decomposing
humanism: Why replace religion?
Religion Dispatches, 29 October 2009
The
secularist case against "Atheism 3.0",
The Washington Post/Newsweek
"On Faith," 26 October 2009
Notes
from the Harmonious Society: Dissident science in China, part II,
Skeptical Inquirer online, 26 October 2009
The accidental exorcist, in 50 Voices of Disbelief, (Wiley-Blackwell,
2009)
On
the Taliban's hit list: An exiled Pakistani singer's plea to save music,
Religion Dispatches, 23 August 2009
Rage
against the regime: Voices from the Iranian underground music scene,
Religion Dispatches, 9 July 2009
Ahmadinejad
aside, anti-racism conference was deeply flawed,
Religion
Dispatches, 21 April 2009
Wat was aan de hand? [What was going on here?], Trouw, 18 April 2009
Religious
persecution wolf in anti-defamation in sheep's clothing,
Religion
Dispatches, 30 March 2009
The
European Court of Human Rights and the interpretation of 'advocacy of
religious hatred that constitutes incitement to discrimination,
hostility, and violence',
written report submitted to the United
Nations Human Rights Council Tenth Session on behalf of the Center for
Inquiry, March 2009
Vegetarian
meat: Could technology save animal and satisy meat eaters? (with
Patrick Hopkins), Journal of Agricultural and Environmental
Ethics, January 2009
Carniculture,
What will change everything? EDGE, 1 January 2009
Reasons, in John Brockman, ed., What Have You Changed Your Mind About?
(Harper Perennial: January 2009)
Whose democracy? Free Inquiry (October-November 2008)
Sensitive
words, Trouw, 3 December 2008
One damned thing after another (review of A Secular Age, by Charles Taylor), Free Inquiry (August-September 2008)
Is
there a clash of civilizations? The failure of the United Nations'
response, position paper of the
Center for Inquiry
released at the United Nations Human Rights Council, 17
September 2008
Islam
and human rights: Defending universality at the United Nations
(with Colin Koproske), position paper of the Center for
Inquiry-International, released at the United Nations Human Rights
Council, 17 September 2008
Evolution
education and the science-religion conflict: Dispatches from a
philosophical correspondent, in
Ariela Keysar and Barry A. Kosmin,
eds., Secularism and Science in the 21 st Century (Hartford, CT:
Institute for the Study of Secularism in Society and Culture, 2008):
51-67
Religion
and the secular conscience, The
Washington Post/Newsweek "On
Faith", June 2008
Values
voter's trap, USA Today, 28
April 2008
Science
and the candidates (with
Sheril R. Kirshenbaum, et al.),
Science, 11 April 2008
The
civilizations of dialogue,
Muslim World Today, 23 February 2007
An
American secularist in Bangladesh,
The Daily Star (Dhaka), 17 March
2006
Believing
in doubt, New York Times
(op-ed), 3 February 2006