Blog 144: Indigenous Residential School Fanaticism as Performance Art
David Rand Publication Date: 2024-10-07 The indigenous residential school system (IRSS) in Canada has been in the forefront of the news recently, culminating in the National Day for Truth and Reconciliation on 30th September 2024. The IRSS existed for over…
2024-07-02: Lockean Pseudosecularism, Online Talk for AFL
Online Talk for Atheists for Liberty (AFL) Host: Thomas Sheedy Guest Speaker: David Rand Publication Date: 2024-07-05 Video of the Atheists for Liberty (AFL) event of July 2nd 2024, on the subject of Lockean pseudosecularism, comparing it with republican secularism.…
2023-10-13: AAI Hot Seat, Arif Hussain Theruvath Interviews David Rand
The following video, recorded 13th October 2023, is an interview of David Rand, president of LPA-AFT and author of Stillbirth, by Arif Hussain Theruvath as part of the AAI Hot Seat series for Atheist Alliance International. Here are the 18…
2023-04-29: Atheist Society of Melbourne, Talk by David Rand
Atheist Society of Melbourne, AustraliaTalk by David Rand “Stillbirth, The Failure of Secularism in the English-Speaking World” Publication Date: 2023-05-05 The following video is an on-line talk, given for the Atheist Society of Melbourne, on 29th April 2023. This talk…
2023-04-01: Warsaw, Atheist Days, Talk by David Rand
Comparison of English and French Models of Secularism and the Importance of Universalism David Rand Publication Date: 2023-04-15 The following presentation was given by the author at Atheist Days 2023 in Warsaw, Poland, an event organized by the Kazimierz Łyszczyński…
Les députés québécois unanimes: pas plus de racisme au Québec qu’ailleurs (Quebec MNAs Unanimous: Quebec No More Racist than Elsewhere), Geneviève Lajoie, Journal de Québec, 2023-03-15. Members of all political parties in the National Assembly are unanimous: there is no…
Manifesto for Universalism
David Rand & Pierre Marchand, for Atheist Freethinkers Adopted by AFT at its Annual General Meeting on 2022-10-29 We Draw Our Values from the Enlightenment Our atheism is inspired by the values of the Enlightenment and is inherited from them.…
Blog 138: Three Inconvenient Facts about Secularism
David Rand 2022-04-14 There are three important facts which need to be faced if we are to make serious progress towards secularism. The U.S. Constitution is not a good model of secularism. Islamists weaponize the “antiracism” movement in order to…
Blog 129: Lessons from the Muslim Association of Canada
David Rand 2021-12-09 The Muslim Association of Canada (MAC) recently received a $225,000 grant from the Ontario government to produce a course to combat so-called “Islamophobia” in schools. (It also received a $349,000 grant from the Canadian government for similar…
Radio-Canada: la rééducation, Sophie Durocher, Journal de Montréal, 2021-02-12. According to columnist Sophie Durocher, employees at Radio-Canada (the French-langage CBC) are now required to take special training to become more “inclusive,” to recognize their unconscious biases and “privileges” and to…
Blog 120: American—and Canadian—Indecency
David Rand 2020-10-31 The beheading of schoolteacher Samuel Paty, the 16th of October 2020 in the Parisian suburb of Conflans-Sainte-Honorine, sowed confusion and anger—and generated a wave of determined resistance—in France. The target of this barbaric act was simply performing…
Blog 119: Racism and Antiracism
David Rand 2020-06-23 I often criticize the modern antiracist movement, the 21st century antiracist movement, because I consider it to be 95% false and ideologically corrupt. It displays three types of behaviour which I do not accept: The movement blithely…