View all episodes of the Cartoon History of Humanism series. Catching up to 260 BCE: The Visionary Humanism of King Ashoka Tolerate the beliefs of others so long as they do no harm. Cherish life in... Read More

Quentin Tarantino films have a way about them. They are talky, violent, satirical, nostalgic of the 1970s, and excessive—populated as they are with despicable characters, including the protagonists, who know how to talk the talk... Read More

For those of you who have been encased in carbonite for the last year or so, Star Wars: The Force Awakens was released this month after much anticipation. All across the country fans of the... Read More

He found giants in the earth: Mastodon, Mylodon, thigh bones like tree trunks, Megatherium, skull big as boulders—once, in this savage country, treetops trembled at their passing. But their passing was silent as snails, silent... Read More

The Great Transition: Shifting from Fossil Fuels to Solar and Wind Energy By Lester R. Brown, Janet Larsen, J. Matthew Roney, and Emily E. Adams W. W. Norton & Company (2015) From Chapter One: Changing... Read More

BOOK BY SALMAN RUSHDIE RANDOM HOUSE, 2015 304 PP.;$28.00 (HARDCOVER), $13.99 (KINDLE) This past September the celebrated and controversial author Salman Rushdie published Two Years Eight Months and Twenty-Eight Nights—his first adult novel since Enchantress... Read More

BOOK BY SEON M. LEWIS LULU PUBLISHING, 2015 196 PP.; $15.00 The Caribbean has a ripe history of humanism and skepticism. Great humanists like the writer and theorist C. L. R. James, anthropologist J. A.... Read More