Freethought and Freedom

Here are 29 essays on the question of freethought and its relationship to freedom.After this list are other selected writings on atheism and freethought. All essays are at Libertarianism.org unless otherwise noted.

1. Freethought and Freedom: Introduction (2015)
2. Freethought and Freedom: Atheism, Morality, and Civic Virtue (2015)
3. Freethought and Freedom: Augustine’s Case for Righteous Persecution (2015)
4. Freethought and Freedom: The Problem of Heresy (2015)
5. Freethought and Freedom: Aquinas, Luther, and Calvin on Persecution (2015)
6. Freethought and Freedom: Shaftesbury on the Value of Ridicule (2015)
7. Freethought and Freedom: How Freethinkers Attempted to Avoid Persecution (2015)
8. Freethought and Freedom: The English Deists (2015)
9. Freethought and Freedom: Deism, The Age of Reason, and Richard Carlile (2015)
10. Freethought and Freedom: Miracles and Edward Gibbon (2015)
11. Freethought and Freedom: John Toland and the Nature of Reason (2015)
12. Freethought and Freedom: The Politics of Deism (2015)
13. Freethought and Freedom:Skepticism (2015)
14. Freethought and Freedom: Francis Bacon and the Rise of Secularism (2015)
15. Freethought and Freedom: Benedict Spinoza (2015)
16. Freethought and Freedom: Spinoza on the Bible (2015)
17. Freethought and Freedom: Spinoza on Freedom of Religion and Speech (2015)
18. Freethought and Freedom: Spinoza’s Political Theory (2015)
19. Freethought and Freedom: A Critique of Spinoza (2015)
20. Freethought and Freedom: Jean Meslier (2015)
21. Freethought and Freedom: Jean Meslier and the Catholic Church (2015)
22. Freethought and Freedom: Jean Meslier and Christian Ethics (2015)
23. Freethought and Freedom: The Political Theory of Jean Meslier (2015)
24. Freethought and Freedom: Jean Meslier on Property (2015)
25. Freethought and Freedom: The Christian Theory of Property (2015)
26. Freethought and Freedom: Early Christianity and the Modern Libertarian Movement (2015)
27. Freethought and Freedom: The Secularization of Private Property (2015)
28. Freethought and Freedom: Private Property and Natural Law (2015)
29. Freethought and Freedom: John Locke on Property (2015)

Here are some additional essays on the subject.

• Atheism and Objectivism (1973) Reason Magazine
• The Literature of Freethought (1977)