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  • Morning Reads: Quiet Night in Ferguson After Cops Take Off Battle Gear; The Scientific Case Against Fracking
    August 15, 2014
    A roundup of some of the stories we're reading at Moyers & Company HQ...
  • Morning Reads: Fed Contractors to Fight Obama Orders; Benghazi "Controversy" Fizzles Out
    August 4, 2014
    A roundup of some of the stories we're reading at Moyers & Company HQ...
  • Morning Reads: Iran Arrests US Journos; Hidden Impacts of Global Warming
    July 25, 2014
    A roundup of some of the stories we're reading at Moyers & Company HQ...
  • Morning Reads: Space Drones and the GOP Civil War
    December 12, 2013
    A roundup of stories we're reading this morning at Moyers & Company HQ...
  • Excerpt: The Great Agnostic: Robert Ingersoll and American Freethought
    March 1, 2013
    | Susan Jacoby

    "It's hard to exaggerate how famous he was in the last two decades of the 19th century," our guest Susan Jacoby says of Robert Ingersoll, the subject of her new book, The Great Agnostic: Robert Ingersoll and American Freethought. But Ingersoll, once a "mover and shaker" in the Republican Party, is largely forgotten today. Why? He spoke out in favor of the separation of church and state and promoted Darwin's theory of evolution, and because ...

  • Margaret Atwood on the Hunger for God
    March 1, 2013
    In this 2006 Moyers Moment, author Margaret Atwood, a self-described "strict agnostic," talks about the clear difference between atheism and agnosticism.
  • Martin Amis on Being Agnostic
    March 1, 2013
    The novelist talks about his inner conflicts when it comes to his own agnosticism.
  • Four Perspectives on God, Atheism and Agnosticism
    March 1, 2013
    Collected thoughts from Martin Amis, Margaret Atwood, Richard Dawkins and Salman Rushdie on religious identity.
  • The History and Power of Free Thinking
    March 1, 2013 | Moyers & Company
    Susan Jacoby talks with Bill about the role secularism and intellectual curiosity have played throughout America’s history.
  • Moyers on Democracy
    Margaret Atwood
    June 10, 2010
    | BillMoyers.com Staff

    Margaret Atwood is the author of more than 50 books of fiction, poetry, critical essays and graphic novels. Her latest, THE TESTAMENTS, is the co-winner of the 2019 Booker prize and the much-anticipated sequel to THE HANDMAID’S TALE which is now a critically acclaimed television series. Ms. Atwood is also a current vice-president of PEN International.



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