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UID:%2Fnews%2Fpakistan-blasphemy-acquittal%2F@thefreethinkingtimes
DTSTAMP:20260416T000000Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260416
SUMMARY:News: Pakistan High Court Acquits Professor Held Four Years on Blasphemy Charge
DESCRIPTION:The Lahore High Court has overturned a 2022 conviction of a university professor accused of blasphemous statements in a lecture\, citing insufficient evidence and procedural irregularities in the original trial.
URL:https://thefreethinkingtimes.com/news/pakistan-blasphemy-acquittal/
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UID:%2Fnews%2Fmissouri-library-funding-restriction%2F@thefreethinkingtimes
DTSTAMP:20260414T000000Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260414
SUMMARY:News: Missouri Lawmakers Tie Library Funding to Book-Removal Compliance
DESCRIPTION:A bill moving through the Missouri legislature would condition state library aid on demonstrated removal of titles challenged under a statewide 'objectionable content' registry.
URL:https://thefreethinkingtimes.com/news/missouri-library-funding-restriction/
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UID:%2Freviews%2Freview-better-angels-revisited%2F@thefreethinkingtimes
DTSTAMP:20260413T000000Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260413
SUMMARY:Reviews: Review: 'The Better Angels\, Revisited' by Rachel Kessler
DESCRIPTION:A decade on from Pinker's optimistic argument about declining violence\, Rachel Kessler's rejoinder is careful\, data-dense\, and refuses to flatten its disagreements into a headline.
URL:https://thefreethinkingtimes.com/reviews/review-better-angels-revisited/
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UID:%2Fhistory%2Fvocabulary-of-unbelief%2F@thefreethinkingtimes
DTSTAMP:20260411T000000Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260411
SUMMARY:History: The Vocabulary of Unbelief: How Freethinkers Named Their Own Tradition
DESCRIPTION:From atheism to secular humanism\, the terms we use to describe non-belief carry centuries of argument\, persecution\, and hard-won clarity. Understanding the vocabulary is the first step to understanding the movement.
URL:https://thefreethinkingtimes.com/history/vocabulary-of-unbelief/
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UID:%2Fnews%2Ffinland-secular-education-ruling%2F@thefreethinkingtimes
DTSTAMP:20260411T000000Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260411
SUMMARY:News: Finnish Supreme Administrative Court Strikes Down Opt-Out-Only Religious Education Policy
DESCRIPTION:Finland's highest administrative court ruled Tuesday that its current model\, in which religious instruction is the default and secular ethics an opt-out\, unconstitutionally burdens families that decline religious education.
URL:https://thefreethinkingtimes.com/news/finland-secular-education-ruling/
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UID:%2Fnews%2Ftexas-chaplain-program-public-schools%2F@thefreethinkingtimes
DTSTAMP:20260409T000000Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260409
SUMMARY:News: Texas District Approves Unlicensed Chaplains as In-School Counselors
DESCRIPTION:A North Texas school board voted Tuesday to allow volunteer chaplains\, without state counseling credentials\, to serve students during the school day — the first district in the state to do so since enabling legislation passed in 2023.
URL:https://thefreethinkingtimes.com/news/texas-chaplain-program-public-schools/
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UID:%2Freviews%2Freview-radicals-documentary%2F@thefreethinkingtimes
DTSTAMP:20260407T000000Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260407
SUMMARY:Reviews: Review: 'Radicals' Finds the Freethought Tradition's Most Uncomfortable Ancestors
DESCRIPTION:Claire Havemann's three-part documentary on the nineteenth-century freethought movement is unusually serious about its subjects — and willing to let them contradict each other.
URL:https://thefreethinkingtimes.com/reviews/review-radicals-documentary/
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UID:%2Fnews%2Ffederal-regulators-shelved-investigations%2F@thefreethinkingtimes
DTSTAMP:20260315T000000Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260315
SUMMARY:News: Federal Regulators Quietly Shelved Three Major Investigations Last Quarter
DESCRIPTION:Documents obtained through FOIA requests reveal that enforcement actions against major financial institutions were dropped without explanation in the final weeks of the fiscal year.
URL:https://thefreethinkingtimes.com/news/federal-regulators-shelved-investigations/
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UID:%2Fletters%2Fon-regulatory-capture-coverage%2F@thefreethinkingtimes
DTSTAMP:20260314T000000Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260314
SUMMARY:Letters: On Your Coverage of Regulatory Capture
DESCRIPTION:A reader with thirty years in federal regulatory work responds to our field guide.
URL:https://thefreethinkingtimes.com/letters/on-regulatory-capture-coverage/
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UID:%2Fopinion%2Fnewspaper-sold-for-parts%2F@thefreethinkingtimes
DTSTAMP:20260312T000000Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260312
SUMMARY:Opinion: The Newspaper Didn't Die. It Was Sold for Parts.
DESCRIPTION:The collapse of local journalism is not a market failure. It is the predictable outcome of private equity treating public institutions as inventory.
URL:https://thefreethinkingtimes.com/opinion/newspaper-sold-for-parts/
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UID:%2Fscience-technology%2Freplication-crisis%2F@thefreethinkingtimes
DTSTAMP:20260311T000000Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260311
SUMMARY:Science & Technology: What the Replication Crisis Actually Tells Us About How Science Works
DESCRIPTION:The failure of a large number of published findings to replicate is not a scandal. It is science functioning as designed — just more visibly than usual.
URL:https://thefreethinkingtimes.com/science-technology/replication-crisis/
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UID:%2Fnews%2Faffordable-housing-fund-consulting%2F@thefreethinkingtimes
DTSTAMP:20260310T000000Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260310
SUMMARY:News: City's Affordable Housing Fund Diverted to Consultant Contracts\, Records Show
DESCRIPTION:An eighteen-month review of municipal spending records reveals that nearly a third of the city's affordable housing allocation went to consulting firms\, not housing.
URL:https://thefreethinkingtimes.com/news/affordable-housing-fund-consulting/
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UID:%2Fhistory%2Ffirst-gilded-age-ended%2F@thefreethinkingtimes
DTSTAMP:20260309T000000Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260309
SUMMARY:History: The First Gilded Age Ended. Here Is What It Took.
DESCRIPTION:The concentration of wealth and power in the late nineteenth century looked permanent until it didn't. The mechanisms of change are worth studying carefully.
URL:https://thefreethinkingtimes.com/history/first-gilded-age-ended/
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UID:%2Fanalysis%2Fregulatory-capture-field-guide%2F@thefreethinkingtimes
DTSTAMP:20260308T000000Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260308
SUMMARY:Analysis: How Regulatory Capture Actually Works: A Field Guide
DESCRIPTION:The textbook definition of regulatory capture is too clean. Here is how the process actually unfolds\, in practice\, across industries and decades.
URL:https://thefreethinkingtimes.com/analysis/regulatory-capture-field-guide/
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UID:%2Fletters%2Fon-epistemic-humility-academy%2F@thefreethinkingtimes
DTSTAMP:20260306T000000Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260306
SUMMARY:Letters: On Epistemic Humility and the Academy
DESCRIPTION:A philosopher takes issue — respectfully — with our characterization of performed uncertainty.
URL:https://thefreethinkingtimes.com/letters/on-epistemic-humility-academy/
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UID:%2Fopinion%2Fmoral-cowardice-epistemic-humility%2F@thefreethinkingtimes
DTSTAMP:20260305T000000Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260305
SUMMARY:Opinion: On the Moral Cowardice of Epistemic Humility
DESCRIPTION:There is a difference between genuine uncertainty and the performance of uncertainty as a way of avoiding difficult conclusions. Our public discourse has become expert at the latter.
URL:https://thefreethinkingtimes.com/opinion/moral-cowardice-epistemic-humility/
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UID:%2Farts-culture%2Fdifficult-books%2F@thefreethinkingtimes
DTSTAMP:20260301T000000Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260301
SUMMARY:Arts & Culture: What We Talk About When We Talk About 'Difficult' Books
DESCRIPTION:The literary establishment's comfort with calling certain books difficult says more about the establishment than the books.
URL:https://thefreethinkingtimes.com/arts-culture/difficult-books/
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UID:%2Fanalysis%2Fattention-economy-bargain%2F@thefreethinkingtimes
DTSTAMP:20260228T000000Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260228
SUMMARY:Analysis: The Attention Economy's Bargain\, and Who Is Paying for It
DESCRIPTION:A close look at what the business model of free digital services actually extracts\, from whom\, and what the downstream consequences have been.
URL:https://thefreethinkingtimes.com/analysis/attention-economy-bargain/
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UID:%2Fscience-technology%2Finternet-infrastructure%2F@thefreethinkingtimes
DTSTAMP:20260225T000000Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260225
SUMMARY:Science & Technology: The Infrastructure Nobody Talks About: How the Internet Actually Stays On
DESCRIPTION:Beneath the platforms and apps that dominate public discussion sits a layer of physical and institutional infrastructure that is aging\, concentrated\, and poorly understood.
URL:https://thefreethinkingtimes.com/science-technology/internet-infrastructure/
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UID:%2Farts-culture%2Fcinema-nostalgia-problem%2F@thefreethinkingtimes
DTSTAMP:20260220T000000Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260220
SUMMARY:Arts & Culture: Cinema's Nostalgia Problem Is a Thinking Problem
DESCRIPTION:The film industry's retreat into franchises and reboots is not primarily an aesthetic failure. It is an epistemological one.
URL:https://thefreethinkingtimes.com/arts-culture/cinema-nostalgia-problem/
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UID:%2Fhistory%2Fpentagon-papers-lessons%2F@thefreethinkingtimes
DTSTAMP:20260215T000000Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260215
SUMMARY:History: The Pentagon Papers at Fifty-Plus: What We Actually Learned
DESCRIPTION:The publication of the Pentagon Papers is remembered as a triumph of press freedom. The deeper lesson — about institutional deception and its durability — is less often drawn.
URL:https://thefreethinkingtimes.com/history/pentagon-papers-lessons/
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