The Last Aloha is first and foremost a love story. As a luminary in freethought and feminist circles, Cleo Fellers Kocol (1988 Humanist Heroine) could have centered her memoir on her activism in those areas,... Read More

A group of elephants attempts to describe a human being. Tragically, they are blind, but as each snuffles and nudges they call out what they perceive and together they are able to come up with... Read More

This week kicks off Banned Books Week, an annual celebration of the freedom to read that calls attention to books that are frequently challenged or sometimes outright banned. To support this effort, staff at TheHumanist.com... Read More

Being Called is an academic collection of essays that attempts to define and explain the experience of a “calling” from scientific, secular, and sacred perspectives in order to bridge the so-called big questions found in... Read More

As the U.S. political scene has evolved, more and more Americans have begun to realize that the nation suffers from deep, systemic problems. The sad truth is that American democracy is dysfunctional, with government (and... Read More

It’s simply impossible to read the recently published Go Set a Watchman without comparing it to Harper Lee’s only other published book, To Kill a Mockingbird. I wanted to give Lee the chance to write... Read More

As a follow up to 2012’s bestselling Proof of Heaven, Dr. Eben Alexander—the neurosurgeon who claims to have visited heaven while comatose—treats us to another dubious tour of the beyond in The Map of Heaven:... Read More