When my dad, Neil Swanson, goes to rallies against the tar sands pipeline, people rush up to him and thank him for everything he’s doing. They don’t actually have any idea what a great guy... Read More

AHA Advocacy Intern Mallory Kruper attended a recent panel discussion hosted by the ACLU on how the media’s reporting on LGBTQ rights, particularly related to the issue of marriage, changed with the culture.  On June... Read More

Let me start by saying what this book is not. The Great Agnostic by Susan Jacoby is not a biography of Robert Ingersoll. It is, rather, an argument for restoring Ingersoll to a respected place... Read More

Did you enjoy last month’s crossword puzzle but stuck on a clue? Download the answers below! Our special thanks to Dan Mason, creator of this puzzle. Dan creates puzzles for the Williamsport Guardian, a bimonthly... Read More

Our humanist crossword puzzles are back! Download the latest one below. Created by Dan Mason.

If ever there were a day deserving to be called—secularly—a “day of reckoning,” this would be the day for Owen Ross, the forty-seven-year-old protagonist of Jon Mills’ provocative first novel, When God Wept. For it... Read More

I perforce begin with a confession: I couldn’t finish Salman Rushdie’s two most notable novels, Midnight’s Children and The Satanic Verses. I don’t love magical realism generally—I hated García Márquez’s One Hundred Years of Solitude—and... Read More