A humanist and an anti-abortion activist walk into a bar…Sounds like the start of a joke, but Abigail Disney’s documentary, The Armor of Light, touches on the shared values of humanists and one anti-abortion protestor,... Read More

New comics by Jesus and Mo, The Atheist Pig, and Raging Pencils!              

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This week’s poem is by Daniel Thomas Moran, TheHumanist.com poetry editor, retired dentist and Boston University Assistant Professor, former Poet Laureate of Suffolk County, New York and the author of seven collections of poetry. He... Read More

View all episodes in the Cartoon History of Humanism series. Cicero: Classical Skepticism on the Brink of Empire For seventeen hundred years, if you did not have Cicero (106–43 BCE) on your bookshelf, you simply... 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

This week’s poem is by Neil Doherty. He is an economist and professor emeritus from the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania. He has recently moved cross-country to Bainbridge Island, Washington, where he indulges... Read More