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Einstein’s Wife: Mileva Marić
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Cultural Relativism
Tolerance can conflict with opposition to caste violence and other injustice.

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Anthony Gottlieb on Gods and Gardens
If the idea of God is inexpressible, just get on with the gardening.

Columbia University ‘Miracle’ Study: Flawed and Fraud
Even a cursory review of the report reveals many potential flaws.

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Last Updated:08-02-2010

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Go to School and Learn to Pick Lettuce
A vacuous ideology robs too many US schoolchildren of hours they might have spent reading books.
Date filed: 08-02-2010

Germany's Catholic Sexual Abuse Scandal
The code of silence has been upheld for decades, informally or by virtue of Vatican directives.
Date filed: 08-02-2010

Terry Glavin on AI and Cage Prisoners
They don't belong together.
Date filed: 08-02-2010

Ukpabio's Lawsuit Against Igwe Struck Out
Helen Ukpabio of the Liberty Gospel Church failed to show up, so her suit against Leo Igwe is over.
Date filed: 08-02-2010

The 'Islamophobia Watch' Take on Gita Sahgal
She is 'a member of a nutty group called Women Against Fundamentalisms.'
Date filed: 08-02-2010

Articles

Humanism and the Quest for Justice in Africa
By Leo Igwe
Millions of people around the world are living, languishing, suffering and dying under unjust conditions imposed on them by fellow human beings.
Date filed: 08-02-2010

Amnesty International and Cageprisoners
By Gita Sahgal
The necessary defence of the torture standard has been inexcusably allied to the political legitimization of individuals and organisations belonging to the Islamic Right.
Date filed: 07-02-2010

Remember Them!
By Maryam Namazie
Two young men executed by the Islamic regime of Iran for ‘enmity against god’
Date filed: 03-02-2010

Reflections on John Stuart Mill’s On Liberty
By Eric B. Litwack
It can be said of very few texts that they are touchstones for important discussions across many generations.
Date filed: 09-01-2010

This Nonsense Must Stop
By Leo Igwe
Leo Igwe tells what happened, and that it will not stop him from fighting for justice for Daberechi Anomgam.
Date filed: 07-01-2010

'Islamophobia' and the Abuse of the Discourse of Anti-Racism
By Edmund Standing
Opposition to religious ideology is not racism.
Date filed: 06-01-2010

The Many Ways Africans are Dying
By Leo Igwe
'There are many ways to die, and not all of them have to do with extinction.'
Date filed: 10-12-2009

Witch Hunter Sues Humanist Activist in Attempt to Quell Criticism
By Nathan Bupp
The suit equates witch hunting with protected religious freedom.
Date filed: 09-12-2009

A Deal-breaker
By Ophelia Benson
From 50 Voices of Disbelief - what business does God have hiding?
Date filed: 02-12-2009

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Fashionable Dictionary
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