Volume 24 - 2004
 October/November
2004 - Volume 24, No. 6
Editorial
Affirming Life - Paul Kurtz
Op-Ed
Who Owns the Argument from Improbability? - Richard Dawkins
No President Is Above the Constitution - Nat Hentoff
Which Side for Seculars? - Christopher Hitchens
Prohibition Creeps Back - Wendy Kaminer
Are Some People Natural Humanists? - Vern L. Bullough
Taking Humanism beyond Speciesism - Peter Singer
What’s Wrong With Modernity? - Tibor R. Machan
Reason and Superstition in Uganda - Bill Cooke
Humanism in Africa Marches Forward - Norm R. Allen Jr.
Science, Civility, and Value Judgments - Irving Louis Horowitz
Features
REASON EMBATTLED
Response
Response
Letters
Frontlines/ Sidelines - Andrea Szalanski
Church-State Update - Tom Flynn
World Report - Bill Cooke
Great Minds The Humanism of L. Frank Baum - Katharine M. Rogers
Applied Ethics Ethics for a Meaningful Life - Richard Neavel
God on Trial The Strange Universe of the
Homosexual Christian - David Rand
Humanist Living Creeping Humanism - Pat Inniss
Reviews
Mother Teresa: The Final Verdict By Aroup Chatterjee - Bill Cooke
Gandhi: Behind the Mask of Divinity By G.B. Singh - Innaiah Narisetti
Who’s Looking Out for You? By Bill O’Reilly - Hector Avalos
Early Mormon Documents Edited by Dan Vogel - Paul Kurtz
 August
/ September 2004 - Volume 24, No. 5
This issue contains eight additional pages through the generous support of
the Court of Wisdom.
Editorial
New Directions: Centers for Inquiry and Human Enrichment
- Paul Kurtz
Op-Ed
What Use Is Religion?- Richard Dawkins
Castro's Gulag and American Librarians - Nat Hentoff
True Church-State Separation - Christopher Hitchens
A Humanist Failure? - Vern L. Bullough
The Pope Moves Backward on Terminal Care
- Peter Singer
Mother (Nature) Dearest - James Underdown
Features
WHAT IS THE OPTIMUM POPULATION OF THE U.S.? THE WORLD?
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Too Many People - Tom Flynn
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'34 Million Friends' Support Women's Health Initiatives
- Jane Roberts
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The Silent Crisis - Alan Kuper
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Optimum Population - Lindsey Grant
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Carrying Capacity - Mark Nathan Cohen
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From Sentience to Silence - Alan Kuper
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Overpopulation? Fiddlesticks! - Jan Narveson
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Europe's Baby Bust - Rosamund McDougall
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The Aging World - Sylvain and Phyllis Ehrenfeld
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What Population Stabilization Requires - Edward Tabash
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Georgia's Granite Guidestones - Ed Buckner
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My God Problem - Natalie Angier
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A Declaration of Sexual Rights and Responsibilities
- Vern L. Bullough
Departments
Letters
Frontlines/ Sidelines - Andrea Szalanski
Church-State Update - Tom Flynn
World Report - Bill Cooke
Living Without Religion Why No One Ever Dies
- Don Lowry
God on Trial Betting on Pascal's Wager - Arthur R. Miller
European Correspondent Same-sex Marriage - Moves Ahead Jim Herrick
Humanist Activism Atheism and Civil Rights: A Reply to Tabash and Downey
- DJ Grothe and Austin Dacey
Reviews
Freethinkers: A History of American Secularism by Susan Jacoby
- Rob Boston
What Is Good? The Search for the Best Way to Live by A. C. Grayling
- Bill Cooke
Terror and Civilization: Christianity, Politics, and the Western Psyche
by Shadia B. Drury - Tom Flynn
The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll Ed. by Emmett Fields - Tom Flynn
 June
/ July 2004 - Volume 24, No. 4
Editorial
Two Competing Moralities: The Principles of Fairness
contra 'Gott Mit Uns' - Paul Kurtz
Op-Ed
What Use Is Religion? Part 1 - Richard Dawkins
When Mel Had a Hammer - Christopher Hitchens
Back to the Future - Wendy Kaminer
The Harm That Religion Does - Peter Singer
Socrates and Religious Morality - Massimo Pigliucci
Leo Strauss and the Grand Inquisitor - Shadia Drury
Features
Upgrading Humanity: Should We
Become Posthuman?
Departments
Letters
Frontlines/ Sidelines - Andrea Szalanski
Church-State Update - Tom Flynn
World Report - Bill Cooke
Living Without Religion The Pursuit of Happiness - Lili Artel
Faith and Reason True Patriotism - Norm R. Allen, Jr.
Reviews
The Passion of the Christ Directed by Mel Gibson - Paul Kurtz
The Da Vinci Code By Dan Brown - Robert Price
 April-May
2004 - Volume 24, No. 3
Editorial
Re-enchantment: The New Enlightenment
- Paul Kurtz
Op-Ed
The First Amendment and Campaign Finance 'Reform'
- Nat Hentoff
Is America Ready for Civil Government? - Wendy Kaminer
It's Time for an American Offensive against Theocracy
- Ronnie Dugger
The ERA Can Still Pass! - Sandy Jo Oestreich
A Rose Is a Rose - Mynga Futrell & Paul Geisert
Turning Down the Brights - Tom Flynn
Features
WILL ISLAM COME INTO THE 21ST CENTURY?
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Introduction
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NO! Islam Needs to Die, Not Change
- Irfan Khawaja
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YES! Islam Can Be Reformed - Ibn Warraq
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Human Development in the Arab World
- John L. Perkins
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Secularism and Capitalism vs. Islam - Tibor R. Machan
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Religious Correctness and the American Press
- Susan Jacoby
CHURCH, STATE, AND THE PLEDGE
Departments
Letters
Frontlines
Media Scan Edward Said Remembered - Richard Kostelanetz
Living Without Religion The Silver Bullet Question that Kills the Immortal Soul
- James H. Dee
Point/Counterpoint
Limiting Expression Is Dangerous
- Bill Cooke
Can Anything Trump Rights? - Tom Flynn
Reviews
Has Science Found God? By Victor J. Stenger - William Harwood
Bearing Right: How Conservatives Won the Abortion War By William Saletan
- Tom Flynn
Serbia: The Democratic Revolution By Svetozar Stojanovi«c - Bill Cooke
Nothing Sacred By Tom Flynn - James Morrow
The Magdalene Sisters Directed by Peter Mullan - Benjamin Radford
 February-March
2004 - Volume 24, No. 2
Editorial
The Free Market with a Human Face - Paul Kurtz
Op-Ed
Religion—Einsteinian or Supernatural? - Richard Dawkins
A Coalition Confronts Ashcroft - Nat Hentoff
Less than Miraculous - Christopher Hitchens
In Praise of Private Property Rights - Tibor Machan
An Ethic of Responsibility - Peter Singer
Once Again, Science Explains Religion - Massimo
Pigliucci
Humanism and Compulsion - Glade Ross
Two Paths for America - Stuart Jordan
The Choice - Richard Taylor
Features
THE MISSIONS AND THE DAMAGE DONE
- Sins of the Missionaries - Stephen R. Welch
- The Rise of the Nones: Part 2 - Otis Dudley Duncan
- A Priest Forever - Philip Appleman
- Why Spirituality Is Antihumanistic - David Eller
- Heads I Win; Tails Don't Count - Stephen Hanson
- Ascension to Humanism - Keenya H. Oliver
Departments
Letters
Frontlines
Church-State Update - Tom Flynn
World Report - Bill Cooke
Great Minds John Rawls - Ernest Partridge
Applied Ethics 'Stem Cells, Embryos, and Casualties of War'
Redux - Lawrence I. Bonchek, M.D.
Media Scan Sixty Years of Mere Christianity - Jeremy Patrick
Faith and Reason The Crisis of Dualism - William H. Dubay
Humanist Activism Atheism Is Not
a Civil Rights Issue - Austin Dacey, DJ Grothe
Humanism and the Arts Huck's Heresy -
David Cozy
Reviews
Rational Mysticism
by John Horgan - Thomas W. Clark
H. L. Mencken on Religion by S. T. Joshi - Thomas Larson
The Man Who Found Time by Jack Repcheck - James Sullivan
What Men Really Think about Women by Allan Jay - Norm Allen
 December
2003/January 2004 - Volume 24, No. 1
Editorial
Planetary Humanism - Paul Kurtz
Op-Ed
Gerin Oil - Richard Dawkins
Trust and Ignorance - Wendy Kaminer
America’s Disappeared - Nat Hentoff
The Genetic Fallacy - Massimo Pigliucci
Tithing Without God - Mark Berger
On Advocating Infant Euthanasia - Barbara Smoker
Self-Brighteousness - Arnell Dowret
The Tragedy of Our Time - Richard Taylor
Mixed Blessings - Tom Flynn
Features
THE RISE OF THE NONES
- A Paleostatistical Inquiry: Part 1 - Otis Dudley Duncan
WHO BEARS THE BLAME FOR NAZISM?
Departments
Frontlines
Letters
Church-State Update - Tom Flynn
World Report - Bill Cooke
Applied Ethics On Having Your Head Up Your Assumptions - Robert M.
Price
Living Without Religion - On the Death of an Atheist - Jerry
Kurlandski
Humanism and Social Change Rethinking Radicalism - David Anthony
Faith and Reason Opposing Political Islam - Roy Brown
Humanism at Large Cartoon Religion - Beth
Birnbaum
Reviews
Under the Banner of Heaven by John Krakauer - Frank L. Pasquale
Pragmatic Naturalism and Realism by John R. Shook - Bill Cooke
Solitary Sex by Thomas W. Laquer - Vern L. Bullough
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