Free InquiryW was founded by Paul Kurtz as the principle magazine of the Council for Democratic and Secular Humanism. It was meant to offer a more hardnosed critique of religion than The Humanist, where Kurtz had previously served as editor.

Free InquiryW was founded by Paul Kurtz as the principle magazine of the Council for Democratic and Secular Humanism. It was meant to offer a more hardnosed critique of religion than The Humanist, where Kurtz had previously served as editor.