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selected publications

Fly me to the muezzin, Skeptical Inquirer, August 2, 2010

Test tube diplomacy, Skeptical Inquirer, July 2, 2010

The heresies of Christopher Hitchens, Religion Dispatches, June 29, 2010

Satire is religion, Religion Dispatches, May 12, 2010

The goat that ate Islamic science, Skeptical Inquirer, May 12, 2010

Famous atheist philosopher passes away, again, Religion Dispatches, April 23, 2010

Freedom of inquiry, and other medieval notions, Skeptical Inquirer, April 2, 2010

The sound of freedom, Washington Post/Newsweek "On Faith," March 2, 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, February 6, 2010

The Left's Blind Spot, interview in De Groene Amsterdammer, February 17, 2010

Who's afraid of Shari'a? Dissent, February 3, 2010

The decline of the decline of Arabic science, Skeptical Inquirer, January 21, 2010

The death of a secularist Religion Dispatches, January 4, 2010

Sharia-compliant science, Skeptical Inquirer, December 2, 2009

Putting God out of the ethics business, Psychology Today, November 2, 2009

Decomposing humanism: Why replace religion? Religion Dispatches, October 29, 2009

The secularist case against "Atheism 3.0", The Washington Post, October 26, 2009

Notes from the harmonious society: Dissident science in China, part II, Skeptical Inquirer, October 26, 2009

The accidental exorcist, in 50 Voices of Disbelief, (Wiley-Blackwell, 2009)

Notes from the harmonious society: Dissident science in China, Skeptical Inquirer, September 30, 2009

Gods and rockets: Part 2, Skeptical Inquirer, August 25, 2009

On the Taliban's hit list: An exiled Pakistani singer's plea to save music, Religion Dispatches, August 23, 2009

Gods and rockets: A tale of science in India, Skeptical Inquirer, July 24, 2009

Rage against the regime: Voices from the Iranian underground music scene, Religion Dispatches, July 9, 2009

Does science unite? Skeptical Inquirer, June 16, 2009

Ahmadinejad aside, anti-racism conference was deeply flawed, Religion Dispatches, April 21
 
Religious persecution wolf in anti-defamation sheep’s clothing, Religion Dispatches, March 30, 2009

Wat was aan de hand? [What was going on here?], Trouw, April 18, 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, March 2009

Vegetarian meat: Could technology save animals and satisfy meat eaters? (with Patrick Hopkins), Journal of Agricultural and Environmental Ethics, January 2009

Carniculture, What will change everything? EDGE, January 1, 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, December 3, 2008

Is there a clash of civilizations? The failure of the United Nations' response, position paper of the Center for Inquiry-International, released at the U.N. Human Rights Council, September 17, 2008

Islam and human rights: Defending universality at the United Nations, position paper of the Center for Inquiry-International, released at the U.N. Human Rights Council, September 17, 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, Washington Post Online , June 2008

A values voter's trap, USA Today , April 28, 2008

Science and the candidates (with Sheril R. Kirshenbaum, et al.), Science , April 11, 2008

The civilizations of dialogue, Muslim World Today, February 23, 2007

An American secularist in Bangladesh, The Daily Star (Dhaka), March 17, 2006

Believing in doubt, New York Times (op-ed), February 3, 2006