That so many manage to accommodate belief systems encompassing both the natural and the supernatural is a testament not to the compatibility of scien… - Susan Jacoby

The conservatives’ accusation was quite accurate: to say that a woman’s voice should count equally with a man’s in public decisions was to assault centuries of theological teachings and social assumptions about the innate inferiority of women.

Dictatorial regimes recognized evidence-based freethought as an enemy.

The attack on science is a prime secularist issue not because religion and science are incompatible but because particular forms of religious belief—those that claim to have found the one true answer to the origins and ultimate purpose of human life—are incompatible not only with science but with democracy.