BOOK BY JOSHUA COHEN RANDOM HOUSE, 2015 580 PP.; $28.00 Midway through Joshua Cohen’s latest novel, Book of Numbers, a man unsuccessfully searches online to find the object of his affection: an abaya-wearing woman with... Read More

THE EVOLUTION OF EVERYTHING BOOK BY MATT RIDLEY HARPER, 2015 368 PP.; $28.99 ULTRASOCIETY BOOK BY PETER TURCHIN BERESTA BOOKS, 2015 272 PP.; $18.95 Charles Darwin, Richard Dawkins, and their followers have given us a... Read More

BOOK BY ANN NEUMANN BEACON PRESS; 2016 248 PP.; $26.95 With the appearance of The Good Death: An Exploration of Dying in America, author Ann Neumann (a visiting scholar at the Center for Religion and... Read More

Is it time to move the societal debate about God’s existence to a new place? In his book Everybody is Wrong About God, author James A. Lindsay does indeed say that everyone is approaching the... Read More

One of the cornerstones of the humanist philosophy is compassion. This is a motivation that inspires the very lifestance of humanism, according to Humanist Manifesto III. Part and parcel to compassion is empathy, the capacity... Read More

In his essay, “Humanist Literature in Perspective,” Dr. Arthur Dobrin, professor emeritus at Hofstra University and leader emeritus of the Ethical Humanist Society of Long Island, writes, ‘Humanist literature’ is an ambiguous term. Does it... Read More

On November 18, 1978, over 900 members of the Peoples Temple, a multiracial church with Pentecostal origins, died in a Guyana jungle settlement named after the church’s white founder, the Reverend Jim Jones. On that... Read More