A Global Celebration of Love
#LoveIsLove began trending on Twitter in June 2015 after Obergefell v. Hodges established same-sex marriage throughout the United States. To celebrate the motto and their love for each other, artists Fleur Pierets and Julian P.... Read More
Thoughtful Humanist Books for Young Children
A UK-based humanist charity has just published the first in a new series of books which seeks to help young children to develop moral compasses for our secular age. Though initially written for children in... Read More
Veritas: A Harvard Professor, a Con Man and the Gospel of Jesus’s Wife
BY ARIEL SABAR DOUBLEDAY, 2020 Ariel Sabar probably considered “veritas”—Latin for “truth” and the motto of Harvard University—the perfect ironic title for this book. “Ironic,” however, is too mild to describe the contents of Veritas:... Read More
Evil Geniuses: The Unmaking of America: A Recent History
BY KURT ANDERSEN RANDOM HOUSE, 2020 If you like conspiracy theories, Kurt Andersen has a good one for you. Once upon a time there was a well-functioning democratic society that valued fairness, opportunity, and public... Read More
The Goodness Paradox: The Strange Relationship Between Virtue and Violence in Human Evolution
BY RICHARD WRANGHAM VINTAGE BOOKS, 2019 Already in the preface, Richard Wrangham’s The Goodness Paradox put a smile on my face. Wrangham there advocates the position that humans are naturally capable of both good and... Read More
Striking Imbalance: The Conservative Long Game for the Courts
With the Supreme Court vacancy created by the death Friday of Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, the idea of any semblance of balance on the high court seems remote. However, as put forth in Adam Cohen’s... Read More
Doubt, Marriage, and the NakedPastor
In his latest book, Til Doubt Do Us Part: When Changing Beliefs Change Your Marriage, former pastor and cartoonist David Hayward (aka NakedPastor) explores the complex issues that arise when doubt forms around the religious... Read More