The Parade of Privilege: How Government Favors Religion (Privilege #5: The Government PR Campaign)
Luis Granados, director of the AHA’s publishing house, Humanist Press, responds to the Catholic bishops' Fortnight for Freedom, a 14-day campaign which, according to... Read More
Editor’s Note
"EVERYONE HAS A BOOK inside them,” the late, great Christopher Hitchens averred, “which is exactly where I think it should, in most cases, remain."... Read More
The Parade of Privilege: How Government Favors Religion (Privilege #4: Land Use)
Luis Granados, director of the AHA’s publishing house, Humanist Press, responds to the Catholic bishops' Fortnight for Freedom, a 14-day campaign which, according to... Read More
What Money Can’t Buy: the Moral Limits of Markets
Warren Chisum is a conservative state legislator in Texas. He has long campaigned for the re-criminalization of homosexual acts, and for the elimination of... Read More
Nonbeliever Nation: The Rise of Secular Americans
“Religious freedom is a cherished American value,” writes David Niose in his new book, Nonbeliever Nation (Palgrave Macmillan, 2012), “but religious predominance is not.”... Read More
Evolution, Humanism, and Conservation: The Humanist Interview with Richard Leakey
Richard Leakey is a world-renowned paleoanthropologist whose career has been marked by famous scientific finds, political office, and conservation efforts. His family is equally... Read More
Was Adam Smith a Marxist?
If political conservatives were to read the work of their economic mentor, Adam Smith, they’d be forced to apply the same Marxist label to... Read More
Prick the Bubbles, Pass the Mantle: Hitchens as Orwell’s Successor
He is often called Orwell’s heir because of his fervent love for the writer. In the end, Christopher Hitchens was the most important Orwellian... Read More
The Undead: Organ Harvesting, the Ice-Water Test, Beating-Heart Cadavers—How Medicine is Blurring the Line Between Life and Death
Did you know that in the Roman Catholic Church, there is an official called a camerlengo whose sole duty since the Middle Ages has... Read More
The Social Conquest of Earth
Edward O. Wilson's latest book is structured around three questions: Where did we come from, what are we, and where are we going? Philosophers... Read More