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Is Ticketmaster gouging fans, or undercharging them? Robertas Bakula makes the counterintuitive case against the Live Nation antitrust verdict that claims "illegal monopoly".

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Rejecting faith without rejecting faith-based morality is only half the battle.

In his new book, "Breaking Free from Faith-Based Morality," Ben Bayer challenges atheists and secularists to understand how the dominant morality of altruism is rooted in religion, and shows how to build a secular ethics free from its grips.

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If we reject the Bible’s stance on slavery and pigskin, why do we still cling to its doctrine of altruism? In the new Free Inquiry cover story, Ben Bayer breaks down Bart Ehrman’s Love Thy Stranger to unmask the hidden history of altruism and Christian morality.

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