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

Being Called is an academic collection of essays that attempts to define and explain the experience of a “calling” from scientific, secular, and sacred perspectives in order to bridge the so-called big questions found in... Read More

Your faves are back: Jesus and Mo, Raging Pencils, and The Atheist Pig!              

The selfie is defined by some psychologists as “a self-portrait photograph of oneself (or of oneself and other people), taken with a camera or a camera phone held at arm’s length or pointed at a... Read More