Freethought is liberty, equality, and fraternity in the domain of politics. These are not assumptions, but verities. As Freethought recognizes the unity of existence it must also recognize the equality of rights. I use it in the most comprehensive sense, as an intellectual, moral, industrial, political, and social power. I mean scientific freedom, not a mere capricious freedom. I mean freedom devoted to high ends. I mean doubt for the truth's sake. I mean facts correlated into a vast and splendid system of noble philosophy. I mean liberty whose expression is law, whose spirit is universal equality and universal brotherhood. —Samuel Porter Putnam Nineteenth-century American historian of Freethought

Contents

Focus: Ethics and Morality in Politics

The Thrawn Rickle
by Robert Williscroft

Tennessee Man Freed on Tax Charges
by Bill Keller

The Emergence of The New Universal Human
by Lavanam

Ethical Diversity Within Humanistic Judaism

Are American Conservatives Liberal?
by Eric Szuter

Forum: Freethought

Billy Graham
by William Edelen

Robert Burns' Not So Hot Idea
by Constance R. Hale

Thoughts About Thinking
by Gerald Angelo Cirrincione

Ludwig Wittgenstein: Anti-Philosopher
by Joseph H. Engelsman

An Evolutionist Looks at the Origin of Religion
by Chester R. Crisler

Testimony
by Mark Smith

Mind Control
by Ethel Gillette

Religion: Is It A Beneficial Brake On Human Progress?
by C. W. Dalton

Ethics Of Believing Unbelief
by Ross Mullin

Slang and Politics
by Pat Hughes

Book Reviews

The Reluctant Alliance: Behaviorism and Humanism
by Bobby Newman
Book review by Wm. B. Lindley

Freethought on the American Frontier
edited by Fred Whitehead and Verle Muhrer
Book review by Wm. B. Lindley

Ethics Without God
by Kai Nielsen
Book review by Wm. B. Lindley

The Guru Papers: Masks of Authoritarian Power
by Joel Kramer & Diana Alstad
Book review by Earl Lee

The New Right v. The Constitution
by Stephen Macedo
Book review by Richard A. Cooper

Reinventing Government
by David Osborne and Ted Gaebler
Book review by James Kraft-Lorenz

Action:
The Crime Control Act of '93
by Bill Cooper