Damon Linker is the Commentary Editor of Newsweek/The Daily Beast and a Contributing Editor of The New Republic. He will be giving a talk on historic approached to atheism and discussing the idea of what is means to be a skeptic in a culturally Christian society like the United States. He is the author of "The Theocons: Secular America Under Siege" and, most recently, "The Religious Test: Why We Must Question the Beliefs of Our Leaders".