| Editorial | ||
| 4 | From the Editors | FI Editors |
| 6 | The Progress of Humanism | Paul Kurtz |
| 9 | Humanist Manifesto II (1973, Abridged) | Paul Kurtz |
| Op-Ed | ||
| 15 | Of Golden Geese and Sacred Cows | Ron Lindsay |
| 16 | Flocking to Faith | Katha Pollitt |
| 18 | The Return of Indulgences | Christopher Hitchens |
| 19 | God and Suffering, Again | Peter Singer |
| 21 | Blue Laws Are Unjust and Unequal | Tibor R. Machan |
| 23 | The Death Helpers Brigade | Nat Hentoff |
| Poems | ||
| 45 | My Boyfriend Reports at the Drafting Location | Katerina Stoykova-Klemer |
| Features | ||
| Does Democracy Still Matter? | ||
| 25 | Introduction: Democracy Still Matters | John Shook |
| 26 | Beyond the Neocons: Transtlantic Relations and American Exceptionalism | Stefan Halper |
| 29 | The White Whale | E. L. Doctorow |
| 33 | Contemporary Ethics and Liberal Democracy | Susana de Castro |
| 36 | Whose Democracy? | Austin Dacey |
| 38 | Citizen Participation: More or Less? | Larry A. Hickman |
| 40 | The Trouble with Democracy: An Anarchist View | Jeff Shantz |
| 43 | Humanist Legal Advocacy: A Progress Report | Ronald A. Lindsay |
| 44 | Changing Tennessee Jury Oaths without Going to Court | Michael Swanson |
| Departments | ||
| 13 | Letters | |
| 46 | Church-State Update | Edd Doerr |
| 47 | Great Minds Shelley the Atheist |
Gary Sloan |
| 49 | Living Without Religion Humanism, Meaning, and Wonder |
Lawrence Rifkin |
| 51 | Humanism at Large Atheists: Necessarily Arrogant? |
Justin Trottier |
| 53 | God on Trial Have You Heard the Good News? |
Katrina Voss |
| Reviews | ||
| 55 | The Portable Atheist: Essential Readings for the Nonbeliever By Christopher Hitchens |
Peter Atkins |
| 56 | Science and Nonbelief By Taner Edis |
Stuart Jordan |
| 58 | The Age of American Unreason By Susan Jacoby |
Edd Doerr |
| 59 | Irreligion: A Mathematician Explains Why the Arguments for God Just Don't Add Up By John Allen Paulos |
Floris van den Berg |
| 60 | Only a Theory By Kenneth R. Miller |
Jim Sullivan |
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