Susan Jacoby

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1. Michael Shermer

   Author of Why People Believe Weird Things: Pseudoscience, Superstition, and Other Confusions of Our Time, How We Believe: The Search for God in an Age of Science, The Science of Good and Evil: Why People Cheat, Gossip, Care, Share, and Follow the Golden Rule

2. Sam Harris

   Author of The End of Faith, Letter to a Christian Nation, The Moral Landscape

3. Susan Jacoby

   Author of The Age of American Unreason, Freethinkers: A History of American Secularism

4. Christopher Hitchens

   Author of God is Not Great, The Portable Atheist: Essential Readings for the Nonbeliever, The Missionary Position: Mother Teresa in Theory and Practice

5. Bart D. Ehrman

   Author of Misquoting Jesus, Jesus Interrupted, God's Problem: How the Bible Fails to Answer Our Most Important Question--Why We Suffer

6. Jennifer Michael Hecht

   Author of Doubt : a history : the great doubters and their legacy of innovation, from Socrates and Jesus to Thomas Jefferson and Emily Dickinson

7. Daniel C. Dennett

   Author of Darwin's Dangerous Idea: Evolution and the Meanings of Life, Breaking the Spell: Religion as a Natural Phenomenon

8. Carl Sagan

   Author of The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark, The Varieties of Scientific Experience: A Personal View of the Search for God

9. Thomas Frank

   Author of What's the Matter with Kansas?: How Conservatives Won the Heart of America, The Wrecking Crew: How Conservatives Rule

10. Richard Dawkins

    Author of The Ancestor's Tale: A Pilgrimage to the Dawn of Evolution, The Greatest Show on Earth

11. Victor J. Stenger

    Author of God: The Failed Hypothesis. How Science Shows That God Does Not Exist

12. Chris Mooney

    Author of The Republican War on Science

13. David Mills

    Author of Atheist Universe: Why God Didn't Have a Thing to Do with It

14. Richard Hofstadter

    Author of Anti-Intellectualism in American Life

15. Bertrand Russell

    Author of Why I Am Not a Christian and Other Essays on Religion and Related Subjects

16. Michelle Goldberg

    Author of Kingdom Coming: The Rise of Christian Nationalism

17. Charles P. Pierce

    Author of Idiot America: How Stupidity Became a Virtue in the Land of the Free

18. Dan Barker

    Author of Godless: How an Evangelical Preacher Became One of America's Leading Atheists

19. George H. Smith

    Author of Atheism: The Case Against God

20. Chris Hedges

    Author of American Fascists: The Christian Right and the War On America