Ep. 95 - Jeffrey Tayler, Author and Salon Columnist

Friendly Atheist Podcast

Religion & Spirituality, News Commentary, Politics, News

4.6 • 1.4K Ratings

🗓️ 21 February 2016

⏱️ 26 minutes

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Jeffrey Tayler is an author of several books all about different parts of the world, but you may know him best for his wonderful articles defending atheism and atheists, and criticizing the Religious Right on Salon.com. He’s also the Russia correspondent for the Atlantic. His latest book is called "Topless Jihadis: Inside Femen, the World’s Most Provocative Activist Group." I spoke with Jeffrey about Salon's reputation for publishing just about anything criticizing atheists, what the public doesn't understand about the New Atheists, and the impact religion will have on the 2016 elections. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:59.0	Jeffrey Taylor is the author of several books all about different parts of the world, but you may know him best for his wonderful articles defending atheism and atheists and criticizing the religious rights on salon.com.
1:13.4	He's also the Russia correspondent for the Atlantic.
1:16.6	His latest book is called Topless Jihadis,
1:19.4	Inside Femin, the world's most provocative activist group.
1:23.0	Jeffrey, thanks so much for joining me.
1:25.0	Absolutely.
1:28.0	Okay, so let's get this salon thing out of the way right now.
1:32.0	The website seems to have this reputation for
1:34.8	publishing so many anti-atheist articles and it seems like all you have to do to
1:40.9	get published there is write something with that says like
1:43.6	oh Sam Harris is an asshole and they'll print it it seems like and you're like the
1:48.0	one glowing exception to that rule so what's the relationship between you and Salon what goes on behind the scenes there
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