by Tucker Lentz | Jun 4, 2026 | Freethinkers Forum Upcoming, News
Discussion Prompt: Our next Freethinkers’ Forum falls on a remarkable date: July 2, 2026—the 250th anniversary of the Continental Congress’s vote for independence from Great Britain. Many of the founders expected July 2, not July 4, to become the date...
by Tucker Lentz | Jun 4, 2026 | Freethinkers Forum Past
Ten Freethinkers had a rich and engaging discussion of philosophic questions around free will at our Freethinkers’ Forum on June 4, 2026. We could have carried on the discussion much longer, but library hours constrain the time we have. It is great to spend time...
by Tucker Lentz | Jun 3, 2026 | News, Upcoming Movie
Join your humanist friends for a 30th anniversary screening of The Birdcage. We are going to the 3:45 pm showing at the Citadel Mall Stadium 16 theater on Sunday, June 7th. Released in 1996 and directed by Mike Nichols, The Birdcage is a sharp, hilarious comedy about...
by Tucker Lentz | Jun 2, 2026 | Separationist
A dangerous proposal now sitting before the federal government could fundamentally change how scientific research is funded in the United States. If adopted, it would give political appointees unprecedented authority over federal grants, weaken independent peer...
by Tucker Lentz | Jun 2, 2026 | Separationist
This article was originally published in the May 2025 issue of The Separationist. On September 10, 2014 Joe Blushtein was cleaning fish at the back of a boat as it headed back towards Marina del Rey from a day of fishing off the Channel Islands, west of Los Angeles,...
