free thinker

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This anthology left me humbled — and determined to double down on my commitment as a writer, a free thinker, a humanist.

From Salon • Oct. 30, 2025

Written in 1779 by the German free thinker Gotthold Ephraim Lessing, it has been brought to the Aaron & Cecile Goldman Theater at the D.C.

From Washington Post • Mar. 24, 2022

In recent years, he has increasingly alienated himself from the astronomical community, painting himself as a brave free thinker challenging the close-minded dogmas of the broader scientific world.

From Scientific American • Jul. 27, 2021

And though he comes on as a free thinker, he is also a bit of a bully; family members aren’t afraid of him exactly, or yet, but they don’t tell him everything.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 30, 2021

The term "free thinker," which ought to be the highest badge a man could wear, is still almost everywhere throughout America a term of vague terror.

From The Book of Life by Sinclair, Upton