Nov/Dec 2009
Nov/Dec 2009 Cover

FULL TABLE OF CONTENTS

 

UP FRONT
The Army Experience Center’s Bad Experience: Turns out Training Kids to Kill Not Popular with Public

 

Darwin Drama Raises Questions for Both Sides

 

FEATURES:
Comes a Horseman

The 2009 Humanist of the Year on how he lost religion and later gained 2.5 million friends.

 

SPECIAL BOOK EXCERPT Good Without God: What a Billion Nonreligious People Do Believe

In his new book, the humanist chaplain at Harvard points to shared rituals that naturally inspire nonbelievers.

 

Memoir of a Spiritual Refugee

Eat, pray, …run? Exploring the madness and mayhem of a fringe religious group.

 

The Dog Delusion

Extreme anthropomorphism in modern dog culture.

 

HUMANIST ESSAY CONTEST WINNER
“China’s Problem Children: Migrant Labor in the World’s Factory”


 

POETRY
“Fertile Earth”