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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.”

It is time for the end of Zionism
Reading Time: 7 minutes There was that first day in Jerusalem, sitting on that stone wall in the heart of the Old City, looking down at the alleyway below, and seeing that young Palestinian boy pushing a cart full of freshly baked bread, only to be suddenly ambushed—pelted by rocks from a yelling group of kippa-wearing Jewish kids who taunted and threatened him as he scurried as fast as he could towards his destination,…

The secular defense of reproductive rights
Reading Time: 4 minutes Those who are most supportive of a woman’s right to decide what goes on in her uterus…

If criticizing cops causes crime, why are murders highest in Trump country?
Reading Time: 3 minutes The US murder rate is going up. Not good. Despite the fact that accurately identifying the causes…

Are you there, Pan? It’s me, Phil
Reading Time: 4 minutes Pan: the great goat god, rustic wood-dweller and melody-making minstrel, pointy-bearded erotic prankster, horned paramour of sycophantic…

Z: The least religious generation ever
Reading Time: 4 minutes And religion in America just continues to decline and decline and decline. According to a new report…

The happiest nations on Earth are strongly secular
Reading Time: 3 minutes What happens when millions of people in a given society stop going to church and lose their…

Thank no god for XTC
Reading Time: 3 minutes In the beginning, there was XTC. And by the beginning, I mean the dawn of the contemporary…

The leading edge of social justice is secular
Reading Time: 5 minutes As Israeli soldiers and settlers continue to brutalize, humiliate, and kill Palestinians with impunity, there is one…

Nonreligious Africans?
Reading Time: 3 minutes The majority of people in Scotland are non-religious. Same thing in Estonia. And the Czech Republic. And…

Fifty years of ‘Free to Be You and Me’
Reading Time: 5 minutes The coaches and assistant coaches – from both the varsity team and the junior varsity team –…
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