This week’s poem is by Elliot X. Hale, a student in the 8th grade at Cazenovia High School in Cazenovia, New York. This poem was submitted by his grandmother and member of the American Humanist... Read More

We’re featuring new cartoons this week by Polyp! Learn about the artist and read more at polyp.org.uk.            

Polite society has long placed taboos on poking fun at religion (not so much with politics anymore). But we here at TheHumanist.com aren’t afraid to point out how much humor it regularly brings to the... 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 where he indulges... Read More

When someone finds their group, their kind of people, it’s easy to sometimes overdo the joining process. Often, this happens in the teen years and is part of the reason teenage personalities seem so extreme.... Read More

View all episodes in the Cartoon History of Humanism series. Making Determinism Art: The Humanist Fictionscapes of Denis Diderot By the mid-eighteenth century, materialism and its close cousin determinism both had august philosophical traditions behind... Read More

Despite frequent handwringing about all of the casual sex that millennials are having and the perils of hook-up culture, a recently released survey by the Public Religion Research Institute (PRRI) reveals that millennials actually are... Read More