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Sam Harris is the author of the New York Times bestseller “The End of Faith: Religion, Terror, and the Future of Reason” and “Letter to a Christian...

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Sam Harris: ‘God’s Rottweiler’ Barks

The bestselling author of “The End of Faith” responds to Pope Benedict XVI’s speech on the interplay between faith and reason. Harris: “It is ironic that a man who has just disparaged Islam as ‘evil’ and ‘inhuman’ before 250,000 onlookers and the world press is now talking about a ‘genuine dialogue of cultures.’ ”

Posted on Sep 16, 2006

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Sam Harris: The Language of Ignorance

The bestselling secularist author of “The End of Faith” delivers a scathing review of “The Language of God,” a new book by Human Genome Project head Francis Collins that attempts to demonstrate a harmony between science and evangelical Christianity.

Posted on Aug 15, 2006


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Sam Harris on the Reality of Islam

“The truth about Islam is as politically incorrect as it is terrifying: Islam is all fringe and no center,” writes America’s most prominent secularist in a challenging and provocative new essay.
UPDATE: Harris responds to a deluge of comments and some criticism.

Posted on Feb 7, 2006

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Sam Harris Takes On the Muslim Cartoon Controversy and His Critics

UPDATED: America’s most prominent secularist and author of the international bestseller “The End of Faith” reacts to the worldwide Islamic cartoon riots and responds to many of the criticisms lodged against his Truthdig essay “An Atheist Manifesto.”

Posted on Feb 3, 2006

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Sam Harris
Sam Harris

Sam Harris is the author of the New York Times bestseller “The End of Faith: Religion, Terror, and the Future of Reason” and “Letter to a Christian Nation.”

He is a graduate in philosophy from Stanford University and has studied both Eastern and Western religious traditions, along with a variety of contemplative disciplines, for twenty years. Mr. Harris is now completing a doctorate in neuroscience.

His work has been discussed in Newsweek, The New York Times, The Los Angeles Times, The San Francisco Chronicle, The Chicago Tribune, The Economist, The Guardian, The Independent, The Globe and Mail, New Scientist, SEED Magazine, and many other journals.

Mr. Harris makes regular appearances on television and radio to discuss the danger that religion now poses to modern societies. “The End of Faith” won the 2005 PEN Award for Nonfiction. Several foreign editions are in press.

Mr. Harris lives in New York City. He can be reached through his website at http://www.samharris.org

His most recent book is “Letter to a Christian Nation” (Amazon)


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