Are You Anywhere Near Fargo? Get to Zeteticon This Weekend!

9 September 2014

A whole awesome conference, in North Dakota! Don’t miss out. And help them promote it, by telling anyone you know who might be interested and free this weekend to come and hang out. Zeteticon is in Fargo, North Dakota (September 13th-14th)… I’ll be...

New Publications & Whatnot

2 September 2014

I have one new academic journal publication, one trade publication, and one popular media mention to mention… (1) Richard Carrier, “The Prospect of a Christian Interpolation in Tacitus, Annals 15.44,” Vigiliae Christianae 68 (2014): 264-83 is now in...

Victor Stenger: 1935-2014

31 August 2014

Some called him the Fifth Horseman of New Atheism. He wrote openly and prolifically in defense of atheism, and in promotion of sensible physics against Christian and woo abuses of it. And only a few days ago he died. I had the honor of hanging out with Victor Stenger...

OHJ: The Covington Review (Parts 6-11)

29 August 2014

Here continues my series on reviews of my book On the Historicity of Jesus. If you know of reviews I haven’t covered, post them in comments (though please also remark on your own estimation of their merits). -:- This series has covered another series begun by...

Live from Milwaukee

28 August 2014

I’ll be on on “The Alan Eisenberg Show” on WRJN on Sunday the 5th of October (2014) at 8pm CST. Details here. We’ll be discussing my new book On the Historicity of Jesus.

OHJ: The Covington Review (Parts 4 & 5)

27 August 2014

Here continues my series on reviews of my book On the Historicity of Jesus. If you know of reviews I haven’t covered, post them in comments (though please also remark on your own estimation of their merits). -:- This series has covered another series begun by...

A Bayesian Brief on Comments at TAM

26 August 2014

I was asked about remarks made by Chris Guest (President of the Australian Skeptics, Victorian Branch) at this year’s TAM. He gave a quick twenty minute talk on Bayesian reasoning and its abuses, with which I entirely concur. (This talk begins with Guest’s...

Take My Course on Boghossian’s Making Atheists!

23 August 2014

I will be co-teaching a class with Peter Boghossian on his book A Manual for Creating Atheists. It starts in a week (September 1), lasts a month, and uses his book as a course text. So if you want to take that class and use the print edition, buy it now! The kindle...

OHJ: The Covington Review (Part 3)

22 August 2014

Here continues my series on reviews of my book On the Historicity of Jesus. If you know of reviews I haven’t covered, post them in comments (though please also remark on your own estimation of their merits). -:- This series has included another series begun by...

Bat Cruise Tickets Now for Sale!

15 August 2014

What on earth is that? It’s a cool event I’m going to be speaking at (along with Chris Johnson of The Atheist Book fame), near the end of September in Austin, Texas. Summary of links here.

Help Get Justice for Michael Brown

14 August 2014

You can help see justice have its day. You can make a real difference standing up against state corruption and tyranny. You can make a difference toward ending, by exposing and shaming, the wanton and deadly racism so common among the men with guns we ask to police...

Travel Fund Outcome

13 August 2014

If you want Richard Carrier to visit your city, for any organization you are a member or officer of, check this out. Thanks to generous donors covering my losses from a burglary and exceeding that request by several thousand dollars, I have some money I will apply to...

And Now Aoife O’Riordan Joins FtB!

7 August 2014

I said two more. And here’s the third! Aoife O’Riordan (that’s ‘eefa’, like Eva with an f; and of course, oh-reer-d’n) has now brought over to FtB her more-popular-than-she-thinks blog Consider the Tea Cosy. See her inaugural post for an...

Now Heina Dadabhoy Joins FtB!

6 August 2014

I promised two more awesome women would be joining FtB this week, and lo, here is the second: my good friend (and one of my favorite bloggers) Heina Dadabhoy (and that’s “hee-nuh dad-uh-boy”), also a queer poly ex-Muslim (though her background is interestingly...