Phil Zuckerman
“Phil Zuckerman is the author of several books, including What It Means to be Moral (Counterpoint, 2019) The Nonreligious (Oxford, 2016), Living the Secular Life (Penguin, 2014), Faith No More (Oxford, 2012), and Society Without God (NYU, 2008), and the editor of several volumes, including The Oxford Handbook of Secularism (2016) and The Social Theory of W.E.B. Du Bois (2004). He is the Associate Dean as well as Professor of Sociology at Pitzer College, and the founding chair of the nation’s first Secular Studies Program. He is the Executive Director of Humanist Global Charity. He lives in Claremont, California, with his wife and three children.”
The Secular Seven
Reading Time: 4 minutes
If godlessness led to national depravity or high rates of violence, then we would expect to find those countries that are the least religious to be the most horrible, impoverished, unhealthy, and crime-ridden. But we find exactly the opposite correlation. These seven most godless democracies provide excellent examples, as they all boast high levels of societal health and well-being, high GDPs, extremely low rates of violent crime, almost no school…
Is atheism unnatural?
Reading Time: 8 minutes Ten years ago, Psychology Professor Justin L. Barrett published a book called Born Believers, arguing that all…
If you know someone is adopted—tell them
Reading Time: 6 minutes I had never met these two little girls before—flesh and blood relatives—but when I did, it was…
The top 10 psychedelic albums of all time
Reading Time: 8 minutes For several heady years in the late 1960s, an entire genre of popular music was devoted to…
Reducing crime is easy—and we actually know how to do it
Reading Time: 5 minutes Back in the Middle Ages, in the villages and hamlets of Northern Europe, when a spate of…
The brisk, thoughtful intro to Satanism you’ve been waiting for
Reading Time: 4 minutes Imagine you’re going to throw a huge party, no limits. You can invite as many people as…
On Yom Kippur, and its homophobic beginnings
Reading Time: 3 minutes In the early days of October, millions of Jews will observe Yom Kippur. During this most sacred…
20 secular moral beacons
Reading Time: 15 minutes Mother Teresa. The Dalai Lama. Martin Luther King. Gandhi. If you ask most people to think of…
When bad religion reigns
Reading Time: 3 minutes Last week, Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton publicly declared his fervent desire to arrest consenting adults who…
Why Trump will ‘win’ again
Reading Time: 6 minutes OnlySky · Why Trump will ‘win’ again (and the USA will be no more) “Them’s the breaks.”…
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