Austin Dacey

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recent writing


Does science unite? Skeptical Inquirer, June 16, 2009

Ahmadinejad aside, anti-racism conference was deeply flawed, Religion Dispatches, April 21
 
Religious persecution wolf in anti-defamation sheep’s clothing, Religion Dispatches, March 30, 2009

Wat was aan de hand? [What was going on here?], Trouw, April 18, 2009

Religious persecution wolf in anti-defamation sheep’s clothing, Religion Dispatches, March 30, 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, March 2009

Vegetarian meat: Could technology save animals and satisfy meat eaters? (with Patrick Hopkins), Journal of Agricultural and Environmental Ethics, January 2009

Carniculture, What will change everything? EDGE, January 1, 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, December 3, 2008

Is there a clash of civilizations? The failure of the United Nations' response, position paper of the Center for Inquiry-International, released at the U.N. Human Rights Council, September 17, 2008

Islam and human rights: Defending universality at the United Nations, position paper of the Center for Inquiry-International, released at the U.N. Human Rights Council, September 17, 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, Washington Post Online , June 2008

A value voter's trap, USA Today , April 28, 2008

Science and the candidates (with Sheril R. Kirshenbaum, et al), Science , April 11, 2008

The civilizations of dialogue, Muslim World Today, February 23, 2007

An American secularist in Bangladesh, The Daily Star (Dhaka), March 17, 2006

Believing in doubt, New York Times (op-ed), February 3, 2006