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

This week’s poem is by Ikhtisad Ahmed. Ikhtisad is a Bengali writer and the grandson of the legendary intellectual, litterateur and poet Mahbub ul Alam Chowdhury and the decorated gender rights and development specialist Jowshan... Read More

New comics by Jesus and Mo, Ape Not Monkey, and The Bad Chemicals!              

When my boyfriend and I first started watching Trevor Noah’s stand-up comedy in late 2014, it was like discovering a hidden gem. Our inside jokes would center around something silly from his routines like saying... Read More