In 1952, with the election of Dwight D. Eisenhower as president, a small, chariot-driving clan of Christian evangelicals stormed the national stage, bent on foisting their religious claims into American law, custom, and ceremony. The... Read More

Hector A. Garcia’s new book, Alpha God: The Psychology of Religious Violence and Oppression, successfully draws parallels between violence in human evolution and in dominant religions. He effectively illustrates the salience of the connection with... Read More

The New York Times reviewed Stephen Crane: A Life of Fire by immediately reminding readers that Crane, “America’s first rock-star writer,” appears on the album cover of The Beatles’ Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band.... Read More

View all episodes in the Cartoon History of Humanism series. Voltaire: One Poet against Christendom Part I: The Brilliant, Awful Years If religion is a single, concentrated expression of authority, humanism is the modest accumulation... Read More

June 14 marked the finale of the fifth season of the popular television show, Game of Thrones. This season has been particularly controversial in its depiction of the rape of a major character, which many... Read More

The Comics Section is one of our most popular features in TheHumanist.com. You’ve enjoyed cartoons such as Jesus and Mo, Ape Not Monkey, The Bad Chemicals, The Atheist Pig, The Littlest Atheist, Polyp, and much... Read More

By now, most of you know that Caitlyn Jenner, once known as Bruce Jenner, the former Olympian and reality show star, underwent sexual reassignment surgery and other feminization procedures to become a woman. Insisting that... Read More