This week’s poem is by Beth Staas. She holds a bachelor’s degree in psychology, a master’s in English, and taught writing at the high school and college level for twenty years. She has been listed... Read More

The Jim Gaffigan Show stars the eponymous comic, actor, voice-over artist, and author in a fictionalized version of his life as a comedian living in New York City with wife Jeannie (played by Ashley Williams)... Read More

The Flying Spaghetti Monster throwing Ramen to his devoted Pastafarians. People dressed as the entire cast of characters from Captain America posing in the middle of the hallway for a photo-op. A father and his... Read More

A new season of football has begun, but even those who lack interest in the sport are aware that the National Football League is struggling amidst cheating scandals, domestic violence cases, and increasing instances of... Read More

In a White House ceremony last Thursday, President Barack Obama honored the 2014 recipients of the National Medal of Arts and the National Humanities Medal. In all, eighteen individuals—artists, singers, actors, writers, three organizations, an... Read More

This week’s poem is by Oriana Ivy. Author of three prize-winning chapbooks, Ivy is a widely published poet and translator. Her work has appeared in Poetry, Ploughshares, Best American Poetry, The Iowa Review, Nimrod, Prairie... Read More

View all episodes in the Cartoon History of Humanism series. The Reformation’s One Good Man: Erasmus of Rotterdam For half a millennium (in spite of all the towering thinkers who have come since and all... Read More