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The Fourth of July and the Battle for America’s Soul

  • byDaniel James Sharp
Happy Independence Day, America.
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a great battle for evolutionary science, free speech, and free inquiry against conservative religion: The Scopes Monkey Trial of July 1925. Here, William Jennings Bryan (seated, left) is being questioned by Clarence Darrow on 20 July 1925. The court proceedings were held outside on this day due to the extreme heat. photo: Watson Davis. Read more here.
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Freethought History Webinar #4: Atheism and Vegetarianism in the 19th and 20th Centuries: A Match Made in Heaven? With Nathan Alexander (8 July 2025)

  • byDaniel James Sharp
An invitation to the fourth in our Freethought History Webinar series.
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The Scopes Monkey Trial a century on: A global mess that nobody won

  • bySamuel McKee
100 years on from the famous Scopes Monkey Trial, have we learned anything?
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Convicted for blasphemy in modern Britain: an interview with Hamit Coskun

  • byDaniel James Sharp
An interview with the man recently convicted for burning a Quran in public.
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Obituary: Michael Laccohee Bush, 1938-2025

  • byBob Forder
Those of our readers with an interest in freethought and radical history will be saddened to learn of…
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What Bothers You Is Rarely the Real Problem: Ethics with Exposed Nerve Endings

  • byDina-Perla Portnaar
There’s always a cloud in the sky. Sometimes they pass in fleeting wisps. Sometimes they gather into something…
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From the UK to Iran, self-critique is the antidote to global Muslim crises

  • byKunwar Khuldune Shahid
Protests in support of Iran’s Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei and his Islamist regime are taking place across the…
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The Iran-Israel war is not a war of liberation or a pursuit of justice

  • byFariborz Pooya
The war that began nearly two weeks ago—with Israel launching a series of bombardments on Iranian military installations…
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