July / August 2012

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UP FRONT

Drones in U.S. Flight Paths: What Could Go Wrong?

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Features:

Niose

Nonbeliever Nation: The Rise of Secular Americans

“Religious freedom is a cherished American value,” writes the attorney, blogger, and humanist activist. “Religious predominance is not.”

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Shaffer

Evolution, Humanism, and Conservation: The Humanist Interview with Richard Leakey

The Humanist Interview with paleoanthropologist Richard Leakey

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Lock

Prick the Bubbles, Pass the Mantle: Hitchens as Orwell’s Successor

The problem Christopher Hitchens wished to address was the same as George Orwell’s: enshrining people or ideas—the “bubble reputations” so detrimental to clear thinking.

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Klein

You’re Addicted to What?

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CHURCH & STATE


The Barton Lies: The Religious Right’s Favorite ‘Historian’ Gets Hit with a Dose of the Truth

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ECONOMICS WATCH

Was Adam Smith a Marxist?

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HUMANISM 101


Tending the Humanist Garden

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BOOK REVIEWS

The Social Conquest of Earth By Edward O. Wilson

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The Undead: Organ Harvesting, the Ice-Water Test, Beating-Heart Cadavers—How Medicine is Blurring the Line Between Life and Death By Dick Teresi

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What Money Can’t Buy: the Moral Limits of Markets By Michael J. Sandel

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