Michael Shermer: Giving the Devil His Due: Reflections of a Scientific Humanist (2019)

Should Intelligent Design be taught alongside evolution in public schools? What sort of government should we set up on future Mars colonies? Should Nazi speech be banned? What's the story with Jordan Peterson? Does the scientific community stifle dissenting voices of mavericks? Could the monuments at Göbekli Tepe be the legacy of a great civilization predating every other we currently know about? Would the ban on assault weapons decrease the number of mass murders in America?

Michael Shermer's new book is a collection of 27 of his essays over a wide range of topics as the examples above suggest. They focus on religion, politics, humanism, controversial intellectuals, and most of all, the primacy of free speech.