New crossword puzzle this week! Our special thanks to Dan Mason, creator of this puzzle. Dan creates puzzles for the Williamsport Guardian, a bimonthly newspaper promoting awareness, arts, culture and education in north-central Pennsylvania. The... Read More

In theaters now, Elysium, starring Matt Damon and Jodie Foster, explores two worlds in an unequal universe. Matthew Bulger reviews the film and its exploration of transhumanism. A few weeks ago I decided to go... Read More

Humanist Puzzle: Cryptoquote Here’s a new puzzle this week! The quote below was encrypted with a simple Caesar cypher. Each letter in the original quote has been replaced by a different letter. The bold, underlined... Read More

With his new book, The God Argument: The Case Against Religion and for Humanism, A.C. Grayling, the London-based author of The Good Book: A Humanist Bible, gives us exactly what he promises in the book’s... Read More

Sikivu Hutchinson is an author and activist who promotes a progressive—and aggressive—conception of humanism that is at once feminist, anti-racist, anti-homophobic, anti-classist, and anti-imperialist. She has no patience for nontheists who focus primarily on church/state... Read More

“The human being is by nature a social animal (Ho anthrōpos phusei politikon zōon).” —Aristotle, Politics (see also Nicomachean Ethics) In 2006, three years after retiring as the head of the Meadville Lombard Theological School... Read More

There are many misconceptions about SlutWalk events around the country, but some of these negative comments go too far. Mallory Kruper finds the craziest comments made about this educational, pro-feminist event. This past Saturday, August... Read More