Freethought = Radicalism

Abolitionist William Lloyd Garrison in 1833, about the time freethinker Abner Kneeland first “platformed” him.

A while back, I read two articles from recent academic journals. One was Jerry A. Coyne’s “Science, Religion, and Society: The Problem of Evolution in America,” (2012, Evolution 66-8: 2654-2662); the other was Frederick Solt et al., “Economic I…