Author Archives: Bradlaugh

Richard Dawkins has a new book out this week, An Appetite for Wonder: The Making of a Scientist.  Naturally he’s been out talking about it, and commentators have been talking about him. Glancing through this stuff, I am struck as … Continue reading →

Looking up something about postwar British Prime Minister Clement Attlee, I came across the following gem. Attlee, in old age, is being interviewed by a biographer, Kenneth Harris. Harris: Would you say you are an agnostic? Attlee: I don’t know.

For those who like this kind of thing ─ I confess to a mild and occasional weakness for it myself ─ here is atheist philosopher Thomas Nagel (What Is It Like To Be A Bat, The View From Nowhere) reviewing a … Continue reading →

Reading Susan Jacoby’s long grumble about the dearth of women in the “secularist movement” (why does it have to be a movement?) my eye was caught by this: Atheists to this day are constantly accused of being shrill, but in … Continue reading →

I did publish some reviews and columns during my absence, but probably the only such item that is much of a “fit” for Secular Right was my contribution to a symposium published in the June issue of The American Spectator. … Continue reading →

[I apologize for the long hiatus in posting.  I have been preoccupied with other issues.] I’ve been trying to figure out what I found so annoying about this gathering of atheists. A couple of things I can identify right away. … Continue reading →

One of the best special-interest bloggers is Ann Corcoran of Refugee Resettlement Watch.  She knows her territory well and comes up with some amazing stories.  The importation of refugees — a high proportion of them fraudulent (90 percent according to … Continue reading →