Emperor Has No Clothes Award
An award celebrating “plain speaking” on the shortcomings of religion by public figures was inaugurated by the Freedom From Religion Foundation in 1999.
Alan M. Dershowitz - 2003
Alan M. Dershowitz is the Felix Frankfurter Professor of Law at Harvard Law School. A graduate of Brooklyn College and Yale Law School, he has been called "the best-known criminal lawyer in the world." He is author of 18 works of nonfiction and fiction and has prominently debated representatives of the Religious Right.
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photo by Brent Nicastro
Recipients of the Emperor Has No Clothes Award:
2007 - Christopher Hitchens (coming soon)2006 - Julia Sweeney
2005 - Oliver Sacks
2004 - Anne Gaylor
2004 - Robyn Blumner
2004 - Peter Singer
2004 - Steven Pinker
2004 - Ron Reagan
2003 - Natalie Angier
2003 - Alan Dershowitz
2003 - Pat, Roger & Melody Cleveland
2003 - Penn & Teller
2002 - Steve Benson
2002 - Robert Sapolsky
2001 - Katha Pollitt
2001 - Richard Dawkins
2001 - Andy Rooney, Ted Turner, Janeane Garofalo, George Carlin, Jesse Ventura
1999 - Steven Weinberg
1998 - Clarence Reinders

