The late Christopher Hitchens was a prodigiously gifted writer and polemicist. He was also an enormously provocative and controversial one. In 2007, KPFA organized a debate between journalist Chris Hedges and Hitchens on the subject of religion, to a rapt and overflowing audience, which ultimately inspired Hedges to write his book I Don't Believe in Atheists.

Joseph Levine grew up an Orthodox Jew, found himself attracted to the '60s counterculture, and studied in Israel for two years. Soon after, he became an atheist. Levine talks about his upbringing, about Torah Jewish practice and doctrine, and about the ideas that spurred him to reject religious faith.

Does God exist? And if God does not exist, why do so many people believe in God? Questions like these have been taken up by thinkers like Plato, Augustine, Hegel, Nietzsche, and Buber. In The God Question, Andrew Pessin examines what some of the best Western minds have asserted about the divine.