21 Lessons for the 21st Century
BY YUVAL NOAH HARARI SPEIGEL & GRAU, 2018 400 PP.; $28.00 Israeli historian Yuval Noah Harari is the author of Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind; Homo Deus: A Brief History of Tomorrow; and now,... Read More
America: The Farewell Tour
BY CHRIS HEDGES SIMON & SCHUSTER, 2018 400 PP.; $27.00 For better or worse, you know what you’re going to get with a Chris Hedges’s book. Despite some of them having ostensible focuses—Death of the... Read More
Darwin’s Apostles: The Legendary Debate
The following is an excerpt from Darwin’s Apostles, a book by David Orenstein and Abby Hafer about the scientists who backed up Charles Darwin, to be published by Humanist Press this spring. The scene is... Read More
The Comics Section: Getting Away with Murder and Trump’s New Year
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Poetry by Morgan Driscoll
Stimulated Economy High above and in between the tropics on the darker continents ignored or mostly ignored in the places where the latte’s poured, the coffee cherries, picked and sorted, prepped to dry, lie on... Read More
Godless Citizens in a Godly Republic: Atheists in American Public Life
BY R. LAURENCE MOORE AND ISAAC KRAMNICK W. W. NORTON & COMPANY, 2018 256 PP.; $26.95 The narrative of history has not been a pretty one for atheists. One doesn’t have to flip back the... Read More
Seven Types of Atheism
BY JOHN GRAY FARRAR, STRAUS AND GIROUX, 2018 176 PP.; $25.00 The philosopher Ludwig Wittgenstein contended that religion has no single essence and that religions are best understood as extended families, in the sense that... Read More