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The Nones are on the rise! When asked about their religious affiliation, year after year, more and more Americans are choosing \u201cnone of the above.\u201d The number of religiously unaffiliated Americans, which includes atheists and agnostics, has been rocketing up over the past couple of decades, and today these Nones make up about one-third of the American population. But they\u2019re not matching their religious counterparts in terms of political organization or cultivating tightly bonded communities, so what\u2019s going on?

In this episode of Point of Inquiry, Free Inquiry editor Paul Fidalgo talks to political scientist Dr. Juhem Navarro-Rivera, Political Research director and Managing Partner at Socioanalitica Research and a Senior Fellow at the Institute for Humanist Studies. His article \u201cThe Boundaries of Secularism: Who\u2019s in? Who\u2019s Out?\u201d is featured in the October/November 2023 issue of Free Inquiry, and he has some important observations about the rise of the nones and what\u2019s preventing the nonreligious from becoming a social and political force to be reckoned with.