Kingpin: How One Hacker Took Over the Billion-Dollar Cybercrime Underground
Readers of a certain age might remember the “phone phreaks” of the 1960s and ’70s who deviously manipulated telephone technology in order to make... Read More
Book Review: The End of Country
As rumor has it, Seamus McGraw’s rough draft of The End of Country ignited a bidding war among New York’s leading publishing houses.... Read More
A Costly Chill in the Air
From the halls of Montezuma to the shores of Tripoli, the United States Armed Forces have left bullets and boot prints all over the... Read More
Raising the Flag
I find myself needing to tell a simple story, one that highlights my family, my community, and the everyday reality of being a humanist... Read More
Standing Up for Science: Taking the Evolution Debate to the Next Level
I recently received an email with a headline that made me do a double-take. It read: “Science Education Triumphs in Texas.” These days, I’m... Read More
Still Enlightening after All These Years The continuing value of the Humanist Institute
A typical sales pitch for the Humanist Institute’s graduate study program might go something like this: Do you want to learn the philosophical and... Read More
The Humanist Interview with Leo Behe The son of intelligent design heavyweight Michael Behe discusses his journey to atheism
Leo Behe is not your typical young humanist. He’s the son of famed intelligent design proponent, author, and biochemist Michael Behe. Since 1996 the... Read More
Book Excerpt: Because I Say So The Dangerous Appeal of Moral Authority
Like a number of progressives, skeptics, and humanists, author Nikki Stern resisted the wholesale rush to judgment after the terrorist attacks on September 11, 2001.... Read More
Mastering the Camera
“He was usually not pictorially dramatic and many of his photographs appeared flat—not shocking enough for his contemporaries. The people in the photographs communicate... Read More
Remembering Lewis Hine
"Kindly, trustful, wistful, amazingly innocent, his front is a mask for his power. He looks like an unworldly schoolteacher, needing protection from the rigors... Read More