From The Big Bang Theory to Orange is the New Black, readers of TheHumanist.com are fans of quality television shows that feature humanist characters or episodes that address science or religion in a critical way.... Read More

Ta-Nehisi Coates’s new book Between the World and Me is a short one—really a collection of three essays, designed as a letter to his fifteen-year-old son that takes the form of a poetic autobiographical account... Read More

“You think your pain and your heartbreak are unprecedented in the history of the world, but then you read. It was books that taught me, the things that tormented me the most were the very... Read More

View all episodes in the Cartoon History of Humanism series. We’re All Mad Here: The Seventeenth Century Tolerance of Pierre Bayle “Behold the truth,” is a sentence of omen, perched at the tense verge of... Read More

What does your voice sound like to you? For many people, listening back to recordings of their own voice is disorienting at best, and soul-crushingly embarrassing at worst. Concerns about how clearly we speak, the... Read More

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

Actress Sarah Jessica Parker has been a longtime supporter of women’s equality, however last week she caused for a stir when she told Cosmopolitan magazine, As [playwright] Wendy Wasserstein would say, I'm a humanist. I'm... Read More