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Essays

Secular Revival Secular humanism may lack a certain magic, but almost anywhere one looks across the globe, there is ample evidence of the strengthening of individual belief. More Essays

Roundtable

Turn the Other Cheek The first rule of evangelical fight club?
Tell everyone about evangelical fight club. More Roundtable

Voices in Time

1939: Solving the Equation Albert Einstein gives the religion question serious consideration. More Voices in Time

Voices in Time

1901: Channel of Blood William James finds the religious life does tend to make one eccentric. More Voices in Time

Roundtable

An Atheist Meets the Masters of the Universe A non-believer comes to a new religious awakening after a near-death experience. More Roundtable

Voices in Time

1843: Opium Den Karl Marx kicks the habit. More Voices in Time

Maps

Sacred Ground The homes and haunts of the gods. More Maps

Voices in Time

778: Splitting Hairs Charlemagne fights the good fight. More Voices in Time
Religion! How it dominates man’s mind, how it humiliates and degrades his soul. God is everything, man is nothing, says religion. But out of that nothing God has created a kingdom so despotic, so tyrannical, so cruel, so terribly exacting that naught but gloom and tears and blood have ruled the world since gods began.
—Emma Goldman, 1910
In Stir
Enemy of the State 1597 / London
Sops for Cerberus 1775 / London
Rigor of Death 1890 / Auburn
In the Trenches
Imperial Hubris: A German Tale by Fritz Stern
Nicholas Best Discusses the End of the Great War
Dulce Et Decorum Est c. 1918 / Flanders
The Louisiana Purchaser
Church and State 1779 / Monticello
Lewis and Clark Go West c. 1805 / North America
Stay Home, Young Man 1787 / Paris
No. 44
Mandates of Heaven by Lewis H. Lapham
Secular Revival by Warren Breckman
The God in the Machine by Lewis H. Lapham
Oratory
The Senior Practitioner 1908 / London
Andrew Jackson Removes the Indians 1830 / Washington, D.C.
INRI 1896 / Chicago
The Eternal City
Exile 8 / Tomis
Hither and Yon c. 63 / Rome
What Greater Bliss c. 65 BC / Sirmio
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