December 8, 2015The candidate's latest round of Muslim bashing is a reminder of Sinclair Lewis' book about fascism in America and the danger of an ill-informed public.- December 8, 2015The candidate's latest round of Muslim bashing is a reminder of Sinclair Lewis' book about fascism in America and the danger of an ill-informed public.
March 1, 2013"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 ...
February 15, 2008The author and free thinker discusses the rise of ignorance in our classrooms, our culture and our politics.
May 14, 2004 | NOWPeter Singer grapples with ethics, morality and responsibility arising from the Abu Ghraib scandal; a campaign ad fact-check; and Susan Jacoby on the inseparability of patriotism and religion in the US.
