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

  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

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

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

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

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

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

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

“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

"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