David Niose
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David Niose

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Having served as president of two Washington-based national advocacy organizations, David Niose has been immersed in secular-progressive politics and the culture wars for over a decade. Niose joined the board of the American Humanist Association (AHA) in 2005, seeing secular-progressive activism as a means of combating the disastrous policies of the Bush-Cheney administration and its conservative allies. He was elected president of the AHA in 2008, and then in 2012 was named president of the Secular Coalition for America. Also a practicing lawyer, Niose currently serves as legal director of the AHA. He has litigated equal rights, church-state, and free speech cases in courts all over the country. Niose blogs regularly for both Psychology Today and The Humanist, and has written extensively on secular and progressive issues for many other publications. He has interviewed figures such as Gore Vidal, Noam Chomsky, and Howard Zinn, and has made numerous appearances on major national, international, and local media outlets. Niose has spoken to groups and debated conservatives all over the country, always advocating on behalf of secular-progressive issues and causes. He has also taught both law and history. Niose's first book, Nonbeliever Nation: The Rise of Secular Americans (Palgrave Macmillan), was met with widespread critical acclaim. Michael Shermer called it "The Feminine Mystique of the [secular] movement," saying it was "destined to become a classic in freedom literature." Free Inquiry magazine called the book "required reading for seculars." Nonbeliever Nation also received accolades from Bill Nye, Richard Dawkins, Julia Sweeney, Steven Pinker, and many others. Library Journal said it was "highly recommended for politically oriented readers of all religious persuasions." Fighting Back the Right: Reclaiming America from the Attack on Reason is set for release in December 2014, also by Palgrave Macmillan. In Fighting Back the Right, Niose focuses on why progressive, human-centered public policy has been so elusive in America, demonstrating that it is a result of numerous factors - anti-intellectualism, fundamentalist religion, corporate power, overzealous patriotism, and others - coming together to empower institutional interests that work against the interests of ordinary people. With this diagnosis in hand, he also provides a strategy to reverse course.
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