Articles
Lang leve de blasfemie, Trouw, 14 January 2012
The Skeptical Canon, part 2, Skeptical Inquirer, 14 September 2011
United
Nations affirms human right to blaspheme, Religion Dispatches, 11
August 2011
There
is no religious freedom, Religion Dispatches, 27 July 2011
The
Skeptical Canon, Skeptical Inquirer, 26 July 2011
Against
religious freedom (with Colin Koproske), Dissent, Summer 2011
Egypt
needs science powered by people, not big projects, Science and
Development Network, 21 July 2011
Science
diplomacy in the Arab Spring, Skeptical Inquirer, 14 June 2011
Het
ware geluid van Iran [The true sound of Iran], Trouw, 25
September 2010
Decomposing humanism, Free Inquiry, September-October 2010
Muzzled
musicians, meet your match [interview], Wall Street Journal, 19
August 2010
Fly
me to the muezzin, Skeptical Inquirer, 2 August 2010
Test
tube diplomacy, Skeptical Inquirer, 2 July 2 2010
The
heresies of Christopher Hitchens, Religion Dispatches, 29
June 2010
Sstire
is religion, Religion
Dispatches, 12 May 2010
The
goat that ate Islamic science, Skeptical Inquirer, 12 May 2010
Famous
atheist philosopher passes away, again, Religion Dispatches, 23
April 2010
Freedom
of inquiry, and other medieval notions, Skeptical Inquirer, 2 April
2010
The
sound of freedom, Washington Post/Newsweek "On Faith," 2 March 2010
The importance of what it feels like: A review of 36 Arguments for the
existence of God: A work of fiction, by Rebecca Newberger Goldstein,
Free Inquiry, February/March 2010
Exiled
in New York, Trouw, 2 February 2010
The Left's
Blind Spot [interview], De Groene Amsterdammer, 17 February 2010
Who's afraid of
Shari'a? Dissent, 3 February 2010
The
decline of the decline of Arabic science, Skeptical Inquirer, 21
January 2010
The
death of a
secularist, Religion Dispatches, 4 January 2010
Sharia-compliant
science, Skeptical Inquirer, 2 December 2009
Putting
God out of the ethics business, Psychology Today, 2 November 2009
Decomposing
humanism: Why replace religion? Religion Dispatches, 29 October 2009
The
secularist case against "Atheism 3.0", The Washington Post/Newsweek
"On Faith," 26 October 2009
Notes
from the Harmonious Society: Dissident science in China, part II,
Skeptical Inquirer, 26 October 2009
The accidental exorcist, in 50 Voices of Disbelief, (Wiley-Blackwell,
2009)
Notes
from the Harmonious Society: Dissident science in China, Skeptical
Inquirer, 30 September 2009
Gods
and rockets: A tale of science in India, part II, Skeptical
Inquirer,
25 August 2009
On
the Taliban's hit list: An exiled Pakistani singer's plea to save music,
Religion Dispatches, 23 August 2009
Gods and rockets:
A tale of science in India, Skeptical Inquirer, 24 July 2009
Rage
against the regime: Voices from the Iranian underground music scene,
Religion Dispatches, 9 July 2009
Does
science unite? Skeptical Inquirer, 16 June 2009
Ahmadinejad
aside, anti-racism conference was deeply flawed, Religion
Dispatches, 21 April 2009
Wat was aan de hand? [What was going on here?], Trouw, 18 April 2009
Religious
persecution wolf in anti-defamation in sheep's clothing, Religion
Dispatches, 30 March 2009
The
European Court of Human Rights and the interpretation of 'advocacy of
religious hatred that constitutes incitement to discrimination,
hostility, and violence', written report submitted to the United
Nations Human Rights Council Tenth Session on behalf of the Center for
Inquiry, March 2009
Vegetarian
meat: Could technology save animal and satisy meat eaters? (with
Patrick Hopkins), Journal of Agricultural and Environmental
Ethics, January 2009
Carniculture,
What will change everything? EDGE, 1 January 2009
Reasons, in John Brockman, ed., What Have You Changed Your Mind About?
(Harper Perennial: January 2009)
Whose democracy? Free Inquiry (October-November 2008)
Sensitive
words, Trouw, 3 December 2008
One damned thing after another (review of A Secular Age, by Charles Taylor), Free Inquiry (August-September 2008)
Is
there a clash of civilizations? The failure of the United Nations'
response, position paper of the Center for Inquiry
released at the United Nations Human Rights Council, 17
September 2008
Islam
and human rights: Defending universality at the United Nations
(with Colin Koproske), position paper of the Center for
Inquiry-International, released at the United Nations Human Rights
Council, 17 September 2008
Evolution
education and the science-religion conflict: Dispatches from a
philosophical correspondent, in Ariela Keysar and Barry A. Kosmin,
eds., Secularism and Science in the 21 st Century (Hartford, CT:
Institute for the Study of Secularism in Society and Culture, 2008):
51-67
Religion
and the secular conscience, The Washington Post/Newsweek "On
Faith", June 2008
Values
voter's trap, USA Today, 28 April 2008
Science
and the candidates (with Sheril R. Kirshenbaum, et al.),
Science, 11 April 2008
The
civilizations of dialogue, Muslim World Today, 23 February 2007
An
American secularist in Bangladesh, The Daily Star (Dhaka), 17 March
2006
Believing
in doubt, New York Times (op-ed), 3 February 2006