“On or about December, 1910, human character changed,” Virgina Wolf said in London. But in New York’s Greenwich Village as well, a band of artists and intellectuals committed to free speech, free love, and progressive politics was giving birth to an American modernism that snuffed out the stodgy Victorian bourgeois century. America’s first real counterculture [...]

What do Woody Allen, Bill Gates, George Clooney, and Samuel Clemens have in common? They’re all non-believers of one kind or another. In an age when the vast majority of Americans are embracing various faiths, the secular humanists, atheists, agnostics, rationalists, skeptics, and other non-theists among us may be getting short shrift. Warren A. Smith [...]