I have just read—well, more or less—three recent books that will weigh heavily on my mind if I don’t write about them. First, I must explain that I usually read more than one book at... Read More

Awarded the 2012 Pulitzer Prize for non-fiction, Stephen Greenblatt’s new book The Swerve: How the World Became Modern gives us a fascinating, if somewhat disjointed, history of the suppression, unlikely survival, and subsequent effect on... Read More

For conservatives, New Yorker film critic Pauline Kael is notorious for her comment of astonishment when Richard Nixon won the 1972 presidential election since, as she remarked, “everyone I know voted for McGovern.” Despite this... Read More

Joseph R. Haun will probably never be as familiar a name as Christopher Hitchens or Richard Dawkins, yet his humanist philosophy is more consistent and grounded than that of the mercurial Hitch, and his contribution... Read More

In his short new book Free Will prominent atheist Sam Harris, author of The End of Faith, Letter to a Christian Nation, and The Moral Landscape, makes the unsettling case that there is no such... Read More

Who was the first person really? Why are there so many different kinds of animals? What are things made of? Why do we have night and day, winter and summer? Why do bad things happen?... Read More

Humanist Network News is pleased to support a new book project created by New York photographer and filmmaker Chris Johnson. A Better Life: 100 Atheists Speak Out on Joy and Meaning in a World Without... Read More