A Fiery Peace in a Cold War: Bernard Schriever and the Ultimate Weapon
A Fiery Peace in a Cold War is the biography of a man, Bernard A. Schriever, who has profoundly affected the United States and... Read More
The Sky, Full of Birds
Background chatter, the chink of spoons on china, music piped in. Outside, the sky a medley of soaring birds, on the streets people walking... Read More
The Mystery of Evil and Suffering
If God is all-powerful and all-knowing, and if God is good, how can he allow evil and suffering to exist? Scholars know this question’s... Read More
Everything Matters: Poetry and the Police Department
It has been bandied about and argued that poetry—or any art for that matter—changes nothing. But everything changes everything, including the least utterance, whether... Read More
Children of the CHON: What We Know about Genesis
Back in early 2001, scientists at Ames Research Center in California were exploring some of the interesting organic chemistry that was believed to be... Read More
Christians, Homosexuality, and the Same-Sex Marriage Question
Humanity has a curious relationship with sex. It obviously enjoys it—there are nearly seven billion people in the world and not all that output... Read More
Strategies for Fighting Blasphemy Laws in a Post-Tolerant World
The new decade was ushered in by a disturbing headline: “Ireland’s New Blasphemy Law Goes into Effect.” New blasphemy law? Don’t those belong in... Read More
One Hot Book: Richard Seaver & The Public Burning’s Wild Ride
The publication of Robert Coover’s audacious 1977 novel, The Public Burning, almost never happened. The book uses the circumstances surrounding the 1953 execution of... Read More
The HUMANIST Interview with Rebecca Newberger Goldstein
Author and philosopher Rebecca Newberger Goldstein’s new novel, 36 Arguments for the Existence of God: A Work of Fiction (Pantheon, 2010), follows the past... Read More
A Questionable Pro-Choice Strategy (in 140 Characters or Less)
In February a woman named Angie Jackson made national headlines by live-tweeting her abortion. In doing so, she sparked a firestorm of criticism and... Read More