Battling the Virus of Bad Thinking (Dan Barker and Annie Laurie Gaylor, Freethought Radio podcast)

Guest: Larry Shapiro. President Biden should not have attended today's divisive National Prayer Breakfast. U.S. Rep. Jamie Raskin tells us why it is important to memorialize America's "forgotten Founder" Thomas Paine. Then we speak with philosopher Lawrence Shapiro about his new book (co-written with Steven Nadler): When Bad Thinking Happens to Good People: How Philosophy Can Save Us From Ourselves.

Interview: 

https://ffrf.org/news/radio/show-items/item/40380-freethought-radio-february-3-2022

Forgotten Founder (Dan Barker and Annie Laurie Gaylor, Freethought Radio podcast)

Guests: Margaret Downey and Gary Berton. We talk about the need to replace retiring Supreme Court Justice Breyer with a proponent of state/church separation. After hearing Dan Barker's tribute to Thomas Paine, "The World Is My Country," we talk with two Paine experts: Margaret Downey, president of the new Thomas Paine Memorial Association, and Gary Berton, president of the Thomas Paine National Historical Association, about the drive to erect a statue to the "forgotten founder" in Washington DC.

Interview: 

https://ffrf.org/news/radio/show-items/item/40360-freethought-radio-january-27-2022