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
Until the End of Time: Mind, Matter, and Our Search for Meaning in an Evolving Universe

BY BRIAN GREENE KNOPF, 2020 It doesn’t get much more ambitious than this. In Until the End of Time: Mind, Matter, and Our Search for Meaning in an Evolving Universe, Columbia University physicist and mathematician... Read More
Apeirogon

BY COLUM MCCANN RANDOM HOUSE, 2020 As was ably displayed in his previous novels and stories, Colum McCann is a writer of true literary dexterity. In 2003, still in his thirties and having published his... Read More
Humanist EDge: Celebrating Summer with Humanist Books for Kids

In July we celebrate Independence Day, as well as national days for blueberries, ice cream, French fries, and more. July also marks the onset of the dog days of summer and it’s National Anti-Boredom month.... Read More
Richard Hofstadter: Anti-Intellectualism in American Life, The Paranoid Style in American Politics, Uncollected Essays 1956–1965

EDITED BY SEAN WILENTZ LIBRARY OF AMERICA, 2020 Conspiracy theories are the last refuge of the status quo—its last line of ideological defense. “It’s not that our institutions are bad,” a conspiracy theory promises, “It’s... Read More
Unburying Diderot

An excerpt from Diderot and the Art of Thinking Freely by Andrew S. Curran Sometime during the snowy winter of 1793, under cover of night, a small group of thieves pried open a wooden door... Read More
The Black Humanist Heathen Gaze

On Wednesday, May 20, the American Humanist Association’s Center for Education presents its May Speaker Series event via Zoom (6:30-8:00pm ET) with Sikivu Hutchinson. The author will discuss her new book, Humanists in the Hood:... Read More