Earlier this week, the LA Times reported that Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg named Fellow Steven PinkerÔÇÖs The Better Angels of Our Nature: Why Violence Has Declined as his book clubÔÇÖs second pick of the year. Up to 270,000 members will [...]
It is a widely held truism that more religious Americans tend to be more charitable. ┬áThe thesis that those who are closest to the creator are the oneÔÇÖs most┬áwilling to help out their fellow man, woman and child has become [...]
US Congress - Secular Policy Institute staff are busy attending briefings on the Republican's plans for the new 114th Congress that kicked off last Tuesday amidst snowfall. Republicans lost Congressional dominance in 2007 and have waited eight years for that [...]
SPI Fellows' Corner Michael Shermer in D.C., Dawkins on Paris Next Wednesday, January 21st, Fellow Michael Shermer, advisor to the American Council on Science and Health, founder of The Skeptics Society and Editor in Chief of its magazine Skeptic, will return [...]
A new report from the International Humanist and Ethical Union shows that even as religious belief is in global decline, a number of governments are stepping up attempts to portray secularists and atheists in a negative and often dangerous light. The [...]
In the last fifty years, the Jewish population across America has changed drastically. With a third of millennial Jews identifying themselves as non-religious, and the growing numbers of inter-faith marriages - which often lead to a downplayed role of religion [...]
An atheist group recently sued Ocala, Florida in response to an officially sponsored community-wide prayer vigil. In this interview from Fox News, watch mayor Kent Guinn explain the case and the event that started it all, which he refers to [...]
Patrik Lindenfors, 2014 This October a very odd dissertation took place at Malm├ University in Sweden. The doctoral thesis, titled Unity Pervades All Activity as Water Every Wave, spoke to the teachings and philosophy of Maharishi Mahesh Yogi. You may [...]
Edwina Rogers, CEO of Secular Policy Institute, has recently returned from a conference in Muscat, Oman, where General David Petraeus was the keynote speaker. In addition to making connections and receiving advice from experts in various fields, three new fellows agreed [...]
Lawsuits for and against using the phrase "under God" in the Pledge of Allegiance are being heard in New Jersey as one family claims the practice discriminates against students with non-religious beliefs, and another student argues that she has the right [...]
