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Phil Zuckerman

Phil Zuckerman is Associate Dean of Pitzer College and the author of "What It Means to be Moral" (Counterpoint, 2019).

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“In atheists, they don’t trust”: Why is it so hard for atheists to get voted into Congress?

Phil Zuckerman
Yoko Ono and John Lennon, circa 1970 (Michael Ochs Archives/Getty Images)

“Imagine” at 50: Why John Lennon’s ode to humanism still resonates

Phil Zuckerman
Amy Coney Barrett, Clarence Thomas and Brett Kavanaugh (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images)

The Supreme Court’s right-wing Catholics are destroying true religious freedom

Phil Zuckerman, Andrew L. Seidel
A woman holds a sign proclaiming her belief that she doesn't need to be vaccinated or wear a mask because Jesus will protect her from coronavirus, as anti-vaccination protesters pray and rally near City Hall after the Los Angeles City Council voted earlier this week to create an ordinance requiring proof of vaccination to enter many indoor public spaces, in Los Angeles, August 14, 2021. (DAVID MCNEW/AFP via Getty Images)

Staunch atheists show higher morals than the proudly pious, from the pandemic to climate change

Phil Zuckerman
A voter wears a bilingual I voted sticker at the University of the District of Columbia (UDC) during early voting in the 2020 US presidential election. (Yegor AleyevTASS via Getty Images)

Secular “values voters” are becoming an electoral force — just look closely at 2020’s results

Phil Zuckerman
Attorney General William Barr (AP/John Bazemore)

The unbearable wrongness of William Barr: Secularism doesn’t destroy society or moral order

Phil Zuckerman
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We’re putting an end to religion: Richard Dawkins, Bill Maher and the exploding new American secularism

Phil Zuckerman