About the magazine
[…] There is nothing in American law or in the American tradition which says that religion cannot be criticized in education, nor does the principle of the separation of church and state involve any such consequence….
MacLeish Committee’s statement, published in THE NATION (1948)
[We are] dedicated to the proposition that a great magazine, in its quest for truth, will dare to defy not only Convention, not only Big Business, not only the Church and the State, but, if necessary, its readers.
FACT magazine (1964)
Most of our problems can be solved through a practical, pragmatic, and operational philosophy of life known as rationalism, which includes science but rejects mysticism and all kinds of religious and other superstition…. [We] want to help promote sense and expose nonsense.
THE AMERICAN RATIONALIST (1997)