Getting Real: A Look at the New Skepticism
It's been a hot day even for Las Vegas, and outside the South Point Hotel and Casino the morning traffic crawls in sluggish resignation.... Read More
Thinking Like a Scientist The Humanist Interview with Congressman Rush Holt
Constituents of Rush Holt, the popular congressman representing central New Jersey, like to flaunt bumper stickers that declare: “My congressman IS a rocket scientist.”... Read More
Religious Freedom or Government-Sanctioned Discrimination? Julea Ward vs. Eastern Michigan University
In 2006 Julea Ward, a suburban Detroit high school teacher, enrolled in a master’s program at Eastern Michigan University (EMU) with the goal of... Read More
Torture on Trial Legal and Humane Frameworks for Opposing Torture
Cases come in by the thousands from all over the world. A man was beaten and whipped. A woman was beaten and raped. A boy was... Read More
Legalizing Sexual Harassment and Legislating Rape Republican Statehouses Declare War on Women
One easily predictable but generally unexpected result of the 2010 Republican sweep of statehouses around the country has been a plethora of angry man-boy... Read More
Death and the Skeptic
"The world began when I was born and the world is mine to win." —Badger Clark As much as the anthropocentric arrogance and subjectivity... Read More
The Age of Movies: Selected Writings of Pauline Kael
For conservatives, New Yorker film critic Pauline Kael is notorious for her comment of astonishment when Richard Nixon won the 1972 presidential election since,... Read More
Candidate Without a Prayer: An Autobiography of a Jewish Atheist in the Bible Belt
“If a man is going to publish his life story, he had best take the precaution of leading an interesting life first. Or at... Read More
Unbelievable! Faith, Reason, & the Search for Truth
Joseph R. Haun will probably never be as familiar a name as Christopher Hitchens or Richard Dawkins, yet his humanist philosophy is more consistent... Read More
Barrier Methods: The Church’s Ceaseless Opposition to Birth Control
I recently found myself on the air at FoxNews.com where I argued with a staff member from the Family Research Council about birth control... Read More