Book Review: Heretic: Why Islam Needs a Reformation Now
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
The Cartoon History of Humanism, Episode 20 Making Determinism Art: The Humanist Fictionscapes of Denis Diderot
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
The Nonreligious Kids Are All Right: New Study Reveals What Millennials Think about Sex
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
Humanist Voices in Verse: “The R-Word”
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
The Comics Section: Easter, Atheist Hell, Does God Know Right From Wrong?
New comics by Jesus and Mo, Ape Not Monkey, and The Bad Chemicals!
Hey, Trevor Noah—We Don’t All Need a God
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
Humanist Statue Erected Opposite Christ Statue in Rio Artist’s rendition of the Happy Humanist statue soon to be built atop Rio’s Sugarloaf Mountain
This post appeared in our 2015 April Fools' Day edition. The election commission of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, announced today that the city’s population has voted overwhelmingly to erect a thirty-meter Happy Humanist statue atop... Read More
