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The September-December 2024 “D.M. Bennett Posthumous Pardon Petition” issue includes:

First Amendment attorney Robert Corn-Revere’s historically significant D.M. Bennett Posthumous Pardon Petition.
Attorney Stephen Rohde‘s “Combating the Comstock Act” article.
Author and Constitutional law professor Steven K. Green‘s “How Jefferson and Madison’s Partnership — a Friendship Told In Letters — Shaped America’s Separation of Church and State.”
“G.W. Foote and The Freethinker Blasphemy Trials With Some Reflections On Relations Between British and American Freethinkers During the Golden Age” by Bob Forder.
”What the Bible Actually Says About Abortion May Surprise You” by Melanie A. Howard.
“The National Liberal League: America’s Forgotten Freethought Organization” by Roderick Bradford.

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The May-August 2024 issue

Excerpt from Bonnie S. Anderson’s The Rabbi’s Atheist Daughter, the 19th century feminist pioneer and firebrand orator Ernestine Rose.
“But Truth Shall Conquer at the Last” revised excerpt from D.M. Bennett: The Truth Seeker by Roderick Bradford.
“Chapman Cohen: Abolitionist Warrior” by Bill Cooke
Freethinker founder George W. Foote’s letters describing his 1896 visit to New York City and the Thomas Paine monument in New Rochelle.
Bob Forder reviews Michael Meyer’s A Dirty, Filthy Book.
From The Downfall of God, S. T. Joshi previews his forthcoming book about the history of atheism in the west.
“Freedom of Thought Is Being Threatened By States, Big Tech, and Even Ourselves” by Simon McCarthy-Jones.
“The National Liberal League: America’s Forgotten Freethought Organization” by Roderick Bradford

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The January-April 2024 issue

Excerpts from Aliens and Religion: Where Two Worlds Collide by Dr. Aaron Adair and Jonathan M.S. Pearce.
In “God and Mr. Wells,” eminent Freethought historian Bill Cooke focuses on the famous science fiction writer’s views on religion.
In an excerpt from Hyperconvergence, author Jensine Andresen draws a parallel between Theosophical occultism and the current discourse surrounding religion, politics, and UFOs.
D.M. Bennett’s affecting Chickering Hall Reception speech and his audacious An Open Letter to Jesus Christ.
The recent Louisiana “In God We Trust” law is examined by Frank S. Ravitch.
Charles J. Russo targets an attempt in Texas to install faith-based chaplains in public schools.
“How Religion and Politics Will Mix in 2024” is the subject of a piece by Tobin Miller Shearer.
Speaker of the House of Representatives Mike Johnson’s legal representation of a creationist museum in court is reported by William Trollinger.
Archival articles about Giordano Bruno, H.G. Wells, Rousseau, and Thomas Paine.

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The September-December 2023 issue
We begin in the beginning with a reprint of the first Truth Seeker –– mostly written by D.M. Bennett.

How religion shapes views on vaccines by Dr. Katie Corcoran, Bernard DiGregorio, and Chris Scheitle.
In “Joseph McCabe: A Rebel to His Last Breath,” biographer Bill Cooke writes about the former British Catholic priest turned prolific freethought author-lecturer.
In an excerpt from The Mind of the Censor and the Eye of the Beholder, renowned First Amendment attorney Robert Corn-Revere revisits the rancorous rivalry between morals crusader Anthony Comstock and D.M. Bennett.
Robert Ingersoll’s measured memorialization of Abraham Lincoln is the focus of a finely wrought essay by Justin Clark.
From his new book Owning the Unknown, science fiction writer Robert Charles Wilson explores atheism, agnosticism, and the idea of God.
In “Down to the River Jordan: The World the Enslaved Made,” Thomas Larson takes to task faith-based White Supremacists and the Florida Department of Education’s repugnant directive regarding the “personal benefits” of slavery

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The May-August 2023 issue includes:

Justin Clark’s “Getting At the Root: Revisiting Christopher Hitchens’ God Is Not Great”
Excerpt from Bradley Onishi’s Preparing for War: The Extremist History of White Christian Nationalism — and What Comes Next
Matt Johnson’s How Hitchens Can Save the Left: Rediscovering Fearless Liberalism in an Age of Counter-Enlightenment excerpt
Erica Goldberg explains the basic principles of free speech
Lynn Greenky clarifies exactly when book bans are unconstitutional
Author Alfie Kohn addresses the current Christian conservative censorship crusade and book banning
David Contosta and John Remsburg on Abraham Lincoln’s religious evolution
D.M. Bennett and Thomas Paine on the Bible
Marilla Ricker’s “Square Deal: Justice for the Man Who Roosevelt Still Insists is a ‘Filthy Little Atheist’”

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The January-April 2023 issue includes:

Andrew L. Seidel’s excerpt from American Crusade: How the Supreme Court Is Weaponizing Religious Freedom
“Did Jesus Christ Really Live?” by Marshall J. Gauvin
Mike Rinder’s A Billion Years: My Escape From a Life in the Highest Ranks of Scientology reviewed by Justin Clark
Excerpt from La Carmina’s The Little Book of Satanism: A Guide to Satanic History, Culture & Wisdom
“Who Are Iran’s Morality Police?” by Pardis Mahdavi
“Sacheen Littlefeather and Ethnic Fraud –– Why the Truth Is Crucial, Even If It Means Losing An American Indian Hero” by Dina Gilio-Whitaker
“The Long History of How Jesus Came to Resemble a White European” by Anna Swartwood House
“Is Hypnotism and Cult or a Science?” by James Hervey Johnson
“The Plymouth Pilgrims: Unlike the Puritans, They Were Tolerant and Advocated the Separation of Church and State” by Andrew S. Draper

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The September-December 2022 issue includes:

- Steven K. Green’s excerpt from Separating Church and State: A History
- “Absurd Givenness: The Death of God, Richard Rubenstein, and Me” by
- Thomas Larson
- Justin Clark’s “The Eternal Yea To Life: The Radical Humanism of Emma Goldman”
- “The Doctors Foote: Freethinking Birth Control Pioneers” by Roderick Bradford
- “After Trump, Christian Nationalist Ideas Are Going Mainstream Despite a History of Violence” by Samuel Perry
- “Salman Rushdie Wasn’t the First Novelist to Suffer an Assassination Attempt by Someone Who Hadn’t Read Their Book” by Jonathan Bat
- Archival “Freethinkers of the Past and Present” bios of Dr. E.B. Foote Sr., Dr. E.B. Foote Jr., and Theron C. Leland

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The May-August 2022 Thomas Paine commemorative issue includes:

Excerpt from The Church of Thomas Paine: A Religious History of American Secularism by Leigh Eric Schmidt
“Steadfast even in Persecution”: Voltairine de Cleyre and the Legacy of Thomas Paine by Justin Clark
Excerpt from Christopher M. Finan’s How Free Speech Saved Democracy: The Untold History of How the First Amendment Became an Essential Tool for Securing Liberty and Social Justice
Jack Fruchtman’s review of Benjamin Franklin: A Film by Ken Burns
Inventing Secularism: The Radical Life of George Jacob Holyoake excerpt by Ray Argyle
“Thomas Paine’s Place in the Deistical Movement” by Hubert Harrison and Jeffrey B. Perry
“The Centenary of Theophilanthropy” by Moncure D. Conway
“Buddha and Mind — How a Religious Practice Came to Fascinate Neuroscientists and Gave Birth to the Mindfulness Movement” by James Flynn
“Holy Wars: How a Cathedral of Guns and Glory Symbolizes Putin’s Russia by Lena Surzhko Harned
“Muhammad: An Anticlerical Hero of the European Enlightenment” by John Tolan
“Scotus is About to Decide Whether a Public School Football Coach Can Pray on the Field” by Charles J. Russo
“Abortion: The Story of Suffering and Death Behind Ireland’s Ban and Subsequent Legalization” by Gretchen E. Ely
“Paine and Ourselves: His Courage is the Quality Which Freethinkers of Today Most Need” by Malcolm Dean Miller
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The January-April 2022 issue, dedicated to Charles Darwin, includes:

- “Charles Darwin and The Two Twenties: The 1920s and 2020s” by David R. Contosta
- Justin Clark writes about “The Exuberant Skepticism of Paul Kurtz”
- In an article by Jordan Besek, we learn how The Crisis editor W.E.B. Du Bois — in his fight against racism — embraced science and defended Darwin
- Donald B. Ardell presents his “REAL Wellness Perspectives” on radical Islam and Christian nationalism
- The late “ant guy” Edward O. Wilson — “Darwin’s Natural Heir”— is the subject of an article by Doug Tallamy
- Valerie Tarico explains why she’s not worried about losing Roe v. Wade
- Dr. Steven Jonas opines about the recent pandemic-related decision by the Supreme Court
- Thomas Larson reviews the recent Netflix film Procession
- Gary Berton critiques Leigh Eric Schmidt’s The Church of Saint Thomas Paine: A Religious History of American Secularism
- Kenneth Copp — the “Amish atheist” — explains his evolution and elaborates on the award-winning film about his life: The Seeker
- From Phil Zuckerman, we learn exactly why John Lennon’s “Imagine” is still acclaimed –– especially by atheists
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The September-December 2021 issue is dedicated to Tom Flynn (1955-2021)

- - In an article dedicated to Tom Flynn, Justin Clark writes about “Unswerving Integrity: The Radical Friendship of Robert Ingersoll and Eugene V. Debs”
  - Excerpt from Climate Catastrophe, and Faith: How Changes in Climate Drive Religious Upheaval by Philip Jenkins
  - “How Threats of Hellfire Helped Keep ‘Immodest’ Women in Their Place — From the Ancient World to ‘My Unorthodox Life'” by Meghan Henning
  - In “The Political Caldron,” Roderick Bradford writes about the controversy created by D.M. Bennett’s editorials in The Truth Seeker prior to the 1880 presidential political campaign and the editor’s views on the assassination — by a religious fanatic — of President James Garfield
  - “Free Speech Wasn’t So Free 103 Years Ago, When ‘Seditious’ and ‘Unpatriotic’ Speech Was Criminalized in the US” by Eric P. Robinson
  - In an excerpt from her new book, Clare Stainthorp introduces readers to a remarkable 19th-century British freethinker: Constance Naden: Scientist, Philosopher, Poet
  - “How ‘In God We Trust’ Bills Are Helping Advance a Christian Nationalist Agenda” by Kristina M. Lee
  - Thomas Larson reviews The Seeker, an award-winning film about Kenneth Copp — the Amish atheist
    and much, much more…
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The May–August 2021 issue includes:

- - Andrew L. Seidel’s excerpts from The Founding Myth: Why Christian Nationalism is Un-American
  - “The Battle over the Bible in Public Schools” by Eric Balkan
  - Ben-Hur: The Tale of the Christ and Robert Ingersoll (The Great Agnostic) by Justin Clark
  - “Adelaide Johnson: The Sculptor of Suffrage” by Kimberly A. Hamlin
  - “John Dewey: Portrait of a Progressive Thinker” by Peter Gibbon
  - “Believing Without Evidence Is Always Morally Wrong” by Francisco Mejia Uribe
  - “Belief in Supernatural Beings Is Totally Natural — and False” by Stephen Law
  - “What Makes People Distrust Science? Surprisingly, Not Politics” by Bastian T. Rutjens
  - “Purity Culture and the Subjugation of Women” by Susan Shaw
  - “Francis Galton Pioneered Scientific Advances in Many Fields –– But Also Founded the Racist Pseudoscience of Eugenics” by Richard Gunderman
  - “Women Used to Dominate the Beer Industry –– Until the Witch Accusations Started Pouring In” by Laken Brooks
  - A Titanic Yarn/ The Truth Seeker
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The January-April 2021 issue includes:

- - Tom Flynn writes about the Robert Ingersoll monuments
  - In an excerpt from Creationism USA, Adam Laats explains the culture war over evolution
  - Becky Garrison’s extract from Roger Williams’s Little Book of Virtues
  - Hubert Harrison — “the father of Harlem radicalism” — is the subject of an article by Harrison biographer Jeffrey B. Perry
  - From This Land Is Their Land, David J. Silverman exposes the myths attached to the first Thanksgiving
  - Chip Colwell and Lindsay M. Montgomery introduce readers to the historic forced assimilation of Native American children
  - The mission of Native American activists and theft of indigenous lands is the focus of Abel R. Gomez
  - Ahmet T. Kuru writes about French secularism and the recent beheading of a high school teacher by a Muslim extremist
  - Robert Ingersoll’s views on the plight of Native Americans
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The September–December 2020 issue includes:

- - “James Baldwin and African-American Freethought” by Christopher Cameron
  - “H. P. Lovecraft’s Racism and Recognition” by S. T. Joshi
  - Excerpt from Society Without God: What the Least Religious Nations Can Tell Us About Contentment by Phil Zuckerman
  - “Infidelity in Green-Wood Cemetery” by Roderick Bradford
  - Excerpt from A Dirty Year: Sex, Suffrage, and Scandal in Gilded Age New York by Bill Greer
  - “Statues Topple and a Catholic Church Burns as California Reckons With its Spanish Colonial Past” by Abel R. Gomez
  - “Religion Debases the Race” by James Hervey Johnson
  - “Protestantism’s Troubling History with White Supremacy in the U.S.” by Tiffany Puett
  - “The Church of QAnon: Will Conspiracy Theories Form the Basis of a New Religious Movement?” by Marc-André Argentino
  - “What Einstein Meant by ‘God Does Not Play Dice'” by Jim Baggott
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The May-August 2020 issue includes:

- - S. T. Joshi introduces readers to the fantasy fiction writer H. P. Lovecraft.
  - Joseph Laycock, author of Speak of the Devil, shares his views on pretend pluralism and radical pluralism.
  - Ahmet T. Kuru reports that in some Muslim countries, blasphemy is punishable by death.
  - Kimberly Hamlin’s excerpt from her biography of Helen Hamilton Gardener, a leading suffragist with close ties to The Truth Seeker.
  - Michael Hickson writes about Pierre Bayle, the 18th century French philosopher who recognized that atheists could be virtuous.
  - D.M. Bennett’s 1881 trip to the British Isles is the subject of Roderick Bradford’s article.
  - Doug Hill explains to a friend why he doesn’t believe in God.
  - Roderick Bradford covers the campaign against Sabbath laws and reveals the role The Truth Seeker played in getting New York City Museums open on Sundays in 1891.
  - Erika Harlitz-Kern exposes one of the ways the medieval church expressed anti-Jewish agenda.
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The January-April 2020 issue includes:

- - Bobby Azarian explains why Christian Evangelicals are hardwired to believe lies
  - Hate-filled letters sent to the Military Religious Freedom Foundation is the subject of Valerie Tarico’s article “When Christian Soldiers Break Bad”
  - “Most Women Are Witches” by Bridget Marshall
  - “Why Some People Distrust Atheists” by Jaimie Arona Krems and Jordan Moon
  - “The History of the Cross and Its Many Meanings Over the Centuries” by Joanne Pierce
  - Nathan Alexander on T.H. Huxley and the forgotten history of agnosticism
  - “Truth Seeker on the Holy Mount: DeRobigne Mortimer Bennett’s Descent from the Shaker Feast Ground” by Christian Goodwillie
  - “Ghosts of Salem: The Alarming Resurgence of Violence Against Witches –– And How to Stop It” by Mitch Horowitz
  - Frédéric Martel’s Prologue of his best-selling book In the Closet of the Vatican
  - Gary Berton’s “Open Letter to J.C.D. Clark”
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The September–December 2019 issue, dedicated to Paul Krassner, includes:

- - Paul Krassner is remembered by his friends; Bruce Fessier, David Macary, and Michael Simmons.
  - Interview with Nathan G. Alexander, author of Race in a Godless World: Atheism, Race, and Civilization, 1850–1914
  - Suicide and the Super-Old by Joel Larus
  - James Haught confronts mortality and has “No Qualms”
  - Betty Clermont on the Vatican’s political agenda carried out by Opus Dei
  - “How and (Why) Americans Were Taught to Hate Atheists” by John Follis
  - Gretchen Ely on abortion policy driven by religious ideology
  - “Evolution Doesn’t Proceed in a Straight Line –– So Why Draw it that Way?” by Quentin Wheeler, Antonio G. Valdecasas, and Cristina Cánovas
  - Gary Berton writes about Thomas Paine’s position of authority in the creation of the Declaration of Independence
  - “Where Are Paine’s Bones?” by Moncure D. Conway
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The May-August 2019 issue includes:

- - “Independence Day” by Robert G. Ingersoll
  - Excerpt from Godless Citizens in a Godly Republic: Atheists in American Public Life by Isaac Kramnick and R. Laurence Moore
  - Excerpt from My Godforsaken Life: Memoir of a Maverick by Barbara Smoker
  - Scott McLemee’s review of Joan Wallach Scott’s Knowledge, Power and Academic Freedom
  - “Why Did Sam Harris Stop Making Sense?” by Vic Losick
  - “Yes, There is a War Between Science and Religion” by Jerry Coyne
  - “What We Know About Abuse By Clergy” by Valerie Tarico
  - ““Army of God” by Lara Whyte
  - “In Honor of Paine”
  - “In The Beginning: The History of The Truth Seeker, Part Three” by Roderick Bradford
  - “Francisco Ferrer and The Free Education Movement” by John Brinker and William Boyer
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The 141st Anniversary Issue (September-December 2014) issue includes:

- - James Hervey Johnson on religion
  - Part One of Freethought, Anarchism, and the Struggle for Free Speech, a series on Thomas Paine by Gary Berton
  - Paul Krassner’s article on Lenny Bruce’s fight for free speech
  - Excerpts from American Freethought series and D.M. Bennett: The Truth Seeker by Roderick Bradford, and From the Palmer Raids to the Patriot Act by Christopher M. Finan

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The January-April 2015 issue, dedicated to Thomas Paine, includes:

- - Part Two of Freethought, Anarchism, and the Struggle for Free Speech, a series on Thomas Paine by Gary Berton
  - The Philosophy of Thomas Paine, by Thomas Edison
  - Thomas Paine, a lecture by Robert Ingersoll
  - Excerpts from American Freethought series and D.M. Bennett: The Truth Seeker by Roderick Bradford
  - Remembering Steve Allen, by Paul Krassner
  - Book review by Gary Berton

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The May-August 2015 issue, dedicated to Free Speech, includes:

- - Chris Finan on Charlie Hebdo
  - Paul Krassner’s déjà vu about the Muhammad cartoon controversy
  - D.M. Bennett’s An Open Letter to Jesus Christ
  - James Hervey Johnson’s Case Against Religion
  - Watson Heston’s editorial cartoons
  - Atheism and Blasphemy excerpt from American Freethought series
  - Book review by Gary Berton

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The September-December 2015 issue, dedicated to Robert Ingersoll, includes:

- - The Great Agnostic, American Freethought film series excerpt about Robert G. Ingersoll
  - Thomas Larson’s article on the non-action attitude on global warming by evangelicals and the Christian Congress
  - D.M. Bennett and Robert Ingersoll visit “Dr.” Henry Slade, the “clairvoyant physician”
  - Charles Darwin’s religious views revealed
  - Clarence Darrow explains his agnosticism
  - Book excerpt from God and Government by Rev. Barry Lynn
    
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The commemorative January-April 2016 “Heroines of American Freethought” issue focuses on 19th-century freethinking females known for their contribution to freedom of expression and association with the Truth Seeker.

- - “Angels, Anarchists, and Atheists” article by Robert Helms
  - Interview with atheist activist Brigit Clarke-Smith
  - The oppression of women in Christianity and Islam
  - Paul Krassner’s abortion referral service article
  - “The Heretical Abolitionists” and The Trinity excerpts from the American Freethought film series and D.M. Bennett: The Truth Seeker biography by Roderick Bradford
  - “Ingersoll in Soprano” by author Kimberly A. Hamlin
  - “Spotlight” film review

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The May-August 2016 issue focuses on religion’s role in taxes, government, politics, and the pursuit of justice.

- - “Herndon’s Lincoln”, American Freethought Film Series excerpt with commentary by David R. Contosta
  - “The Taxman Cometh—Not” by Thomas Larson
  - “Islamic Law and the West” by author Elham Manea
  - Paul Krassner’s article on “How and Why Scientology Sucks”
  - “Was Mother Teresa a Fraud?”, an exposé by Nolan Dalla
  - Cover-ups by the church in “Pious Predators” and “Catholic Church’s Secret Archives Key to Exposing Sex Abuse”, from Morning Call newspaper
  - Ian Ruskin’s Thomas Paine film review, also by Thomas Larson

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The September-December 2016 issue focuses on censorship and religious propaganda.

- - Counterculture icon Paul Krassner remembers Lenny Bruce
  - Thomas Larson’s article on Christian propaganda films.
  - Gary Berton sets the record straight about Thomas Paine
  - D.M. Bennett debunks the Bible
  - “Two Leaves of Grass” excerpt from Roderick Bradford’s biography of D.M. Bennett
  - Walt Whitman recounts his talks with a man who knew Thomas Paine

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Jan-Apr2017-cover The January-April 2017 issue commemorates World War I.

- - In “The Truth Seeker and the Great War” article, we examine our magazine’s exclusion from the U.S. mail for allegedly violating the espionage act
  - Atheist and Vietnam veteran Philip K. Paulson writes about his combat experience
  - The suppression of dissent during World War l is chronicled by Wendy McElroy
  - Wilfred Owen—the First World War’s greatest poet—is remembered by Thomas Larson
  - Historian Philip Jenkins writes about the birth of Modern Islam and is interviewed about his book The Great and Holy War: How World War l Became a Religious Crusade
  - Leigh E. Schmidt’s Village Atheists is reviewed by Gary Berton
  - Dr. Joan Hoff pays tribute to Jeannette Rankin, the “gallant warrior for peace” and first woman elected to national office
  - Environmental conservationist, M. Frederik Smith recounts his childhood memories of patriotism during the First World War
  - “Warfare By Mudballs” covers the scandal surrounding the exposure of D.M. Bennett’s love letters and we make our case for his posthumous pardon

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The May-August 2017 issue contains views on atheism.

- - Jeffrey B. Perry writes about Hubert Harrison, a pioneering African American atheist known as “The Voice of Harlem”
  - Counterculture icon Paul Krassner asserts “There Are No Atheists in the White House”
  - Dr. David Mann argues that “Atheist Doctors Must Come Out of the Closet”
  - “The Atheists Among Us” by Kristen Wilson
  - Our benefactor James Hervey Johnson’s timeless article “God is a Myth and Religion is a Giant Fraud”
  - These are the “Final Days” of religion according to James A. Haught
  - From his new Village Atheists book, Leigh Eric Schmidt introduces readers to Truth Seeker cartoonist Watson Heston
  - “There Is No Religion Higher Than Truth” extract about the Theosophical Society from Roderick Bradford’s biography of Truth Seeker founder D.M. Bennett

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The September-December 2017 issue revisits The Inquisition.

- - Adam Gopnik, James A. Haught, and Eugene Macdonald write about The Inquisition
  - The Introduction from Paul McGrane’s book The Christian Fallacy
  - Joyce Arthur defines the difference between blasphemy and racism
  - Valerie Tarico and David Fitzgerald expose the Jesus myth and the Bible’s promotion of rape
  - The Republican presidential candidate’s anti-abortion platform is satirized by Paul Krassner
  - The friendship between D.M. Bennett and anarchist author Stephen Pearl Andrews is examined by Roderick Bradford
  - In an extract from his book Drunks, Chris Finan chronicles the significant role atheists played in the founding of Alcoholics Anonymous

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The January–April 2018 issue includes:

- - Bertrand Russell on Freethought and the meaning of freedom and civil liberties
  - Bibliographical sketch of Bertrand Russell by Peter Stone
  - Thomas Larson’s article “Rejoice! Secularism has Won!”
  - “Why Religion is Not Going Away” by Peter Harrison
  - “The Muhammad Code” excerpt by Howard Bloom
  - “Freethinkers and the Fight Against Racism” by Nathan Alexander
  - Gary Berton’s Losing Our Religion film review

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The May-August 2018 issue includes:

- - “Historical Black Women Atheists” by Christopher Cameron
  - “The Courage of Elizabeth Cady Stanton” by Melinda Grube
  - Suvi Karila’s profile of Lucy N. Colman, the infidel-abolitionist
  - “No Reformation for Islam, Please” by Stephen Hicks
  - “Should It Be Illegal to Indoctrinate Kids with Religion?” by Zoltan Istvan
  - Censorship crusader Anthony Comstock is covered in Lust on Trial and Belly-Dancing’s Defender excerpts by Amy Warbel and Leigh Eric Schmidt
  - “The United States v. D.M. Bennett” by Roderick Bradford

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The September-December 2018 issue, dedicated to Mark Twain, includes:

- - “Why We Must Defend Free Speech” by Flemming Rose
  - “Mark Twain, Freethought, and Anti-Imperialism” by Nathan G. Alexander
  - “Mark Twain and Robert Ingersoll Connection” by John Bird
  - “The ‘Ethics’ of the Catholic Bishops” by Valerie Tarico
  - “Racial Justice and the Campaign to Save Abolition Hall” by David R. Contosta
  - “In The Beginning: The Story of The Truth Seeker” by Roderick Bradford
  - “A Pantheist Makes a Pilgrimage” by Ray Jason

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The January-April 2019 issue includes:

- Excerpt from Zapped by the God of Absurdity: The Best of Paul Krassner
- Gervase Phillips writes about the roots and resurgence of anti-Semitism
- “Honor Among Priests” by Paul Fericano
- Excerpt from Christopher Grasso’s Skepticism and American Faith
- Victoria Smolkin’s History of Soviet Atheism extract
- Scott McLemee’s review of The Young Karl Marx film
- Death of An Altar Boy excerpt by E.J. Fleming
- “Is Religion Worth Arguing About?” by Stephen Hicks, PH.D.
- Part Two of “In The Beginning: The Story of The Truth Seeker” by Roderick Bradford

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