True Stories from Pro-Sex Feminists
Tales from the Clit: A Female Experience of Pornography, edited by Cherie Matrix (San Francisco: AK Press, 1996 ISBN 1-873176-09-0) 144 pp., $10.95 paper. The famed American anarchist Emma Goldman...
View ArticlePornography: A Business Like Any Other
XXX: A Woman’s Right to Pornography, by Wendy McElroy (New York: St. Martin’s Press, 1995, ISBN 0-312-13626-9) 256 pp., $12.95 paper. At the first humanist conference I ever international event...
View ArticleThe Crisis of Catholic Sex
Sexuality and Catholicism, by Thomas C. Fox (New York: George Braziller, 1995, ISBN 0-8076-1396-7) 381 pp., $27.50 cloth. Once upon a time (less than sixty years ago), there were mainly two...
View ArticleTrying to Save God: One More Valiant Attempt
Is There a God? by Richard Swinburne (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1996, ISBN 0-19-8235445-5) 144 pp., $19.95 cloth. Is There a God? is a shorter and simpler version of Richard Swinburne’s The...
View ArticleHumanism at Large – Vol.17, No. 4
New SecularHumanist Bulletin The Council for Secular Humanism is relaunching its Associate Member newsletter, Secular Humanist Bulletin. The new-style, upbeat newsletter will keep Associate Members...
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Picking apart ‘Pascal’s wager’ Trying the God hypothesis in the court of reason Subway Slim and Fast Eddie were trying to work the old horse race scam outta ’Frisco back in ’46 when they first met him....
View ArticleGreat Minds – Vol.17, No. 4
Classic voices of freethought Mark Twain’s ‘Letters From the Earth’ America’s best-kept secret about Mark Twain (1835–1910) is that he was an agnostic with a strong contempt for religion. His critiques...
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Solar What? In my article “Thinking Clearly About Clones,” (FI, Summer 1997) I wrote, “I find it a personally riveting thought that I could watch a small copy of myself, 50 years younger and wear-ing a...
View ArticleFrontlines – Vol.17, No. 4
High Court Crushes the Religious Freedom Restoration Act In 1990, in Employment Division v. Smith, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that government bodies no longer had to show a compelling reason for...
View ArticleCosmic Humanism for the Space Age
The landing of Pathfinder and Rover on Mars and the images transmitted back to Earth are fascinating. They reveal that the planet Mars is similar to our own planet and that analogous processes of...
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