Advancing Secularism – last night’s panel at Macquarie University
Last night I took part with Sean Faircloth, Jane Caro, Max Wallace, John Kaye, and Stephen Mutch (convenor) in a public panel discussion on the topic of Advancing...
Read MoreLast night I took part with Sean Faircloth, Jane Caro, Max Wallace, John Kaye, and Stephen Mutch (convenor) in a public panel discussion on the topic of Advancing...
Read MoreOne important achievement of the global atheist movement is the Dublin Declaration on Secularism, which was developed at an international atheist convention in Ireland...
Read MoreThe Rationalist Society of Australia is launching its own manifesto for a secular Australia. I can get behind most of this, perhaps all of it. I also think that it...
Read MoreOver the weekend, the police in Australia’s biggest states have arrested a large number of people at music festivals in Sydney and Melbourne. It seems that the...
Read MoreAmong the issues that come up in my book Freedom of Religion and the Secular State is the relationship between freedom of religion and freedom of speech. One of the...
Read MoreThis is a heads-up about an important case that has recently been heard by the Supreme Court of Canada relating to freedom of speech and the legitimacy of hate speech...
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