May / June 2012


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Editor’s Note

by: Jennifer Bardi
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UP FRONT

Legalizing Sexual Harassment and Legislating Rape

Republican Statehouses Declare War on Women

by: Michael I. Niman
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Features:

Trent

Getting Real: A Look at the New Skepticism

by: Brian Trent

A new breed of skeptics is boldly challenging pseudoscience, blind faith, and all manner of “woo-woo.”

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Stern

Thinking Like a Scientist

by: Nikki Stern

The Humanist Interview with Rep. Rush Holt (the only physicist in Congress!)

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Seltzer

Religious Freedom or Government-Sanctioned Discrimination?

by: Leon F. Seltzer

Was it fair to expel a conservative Christian counseling student who refused to discuss relationship issues with a gay student?

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Swanson

Torture on Trial

by: David Swanson

Legal and Humane Frameworks for Opposing Torture

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The Humanist Photo Contest Winners

The Humanist magazine photo contest was a success! Readers took us with them to places near and far (and hopefully left some copies behind for unwitting humanists to peruse). Featured here are the first and second place winners, as well as

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CHURCH & STATE


Barrier Methods: The Church’s Ceaseless Opposition to Birth Control

by: Rob Boston
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PHILOSOPHICALLY SPEAKING


Death and the Skeptic

by: Hiram Crespo
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FIRST PERSON

Stretching It: An Englishwoman’s Search for American Spirituality

by: Lucy Berrington
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BOOK REVIEWS

Unbelievable! Faith, Reason, & the Search for Truth By Joseph R. Haun

Review by: Cecil Bothwell
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Candidate Without a Prayer: An Autobiography of a Jewish Atheist in the Bible Belt By Herb Silverman

Review by: George Erickson
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The Age of Movies: Selected Writings of Pauline Kael Edited By Sanford Schwartz

Pauline Kael: A Life in the Dark By Brian Kellow

Review by: Ron Capshaw
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