Book Excerpt: Civility, Democratic Education, and Public Reason
Reprinted with permission from Have a Little Faith: Religion, Democracy and the American Public School by Benjamin Justice and Colin Macleod, published by the University of Chicago Press. © 2016 by The University of Chicago.... Read More
Focus on the Family Brings Back Christian Magazine for Teen Girls
Despite nineteen years of self-described success, Focus on the Family stopped producing Brio, its print magazine for teenage girls and their parents, in 2009 along with Breakaway, the equivalent publication for boys. Now, after an... Read More
Goodbye, Dave! The Cartoon History of Humanism Signs Off
Well, folks, it looks like Dave’s journey through the “Cartoon History of Humanism” is coming to an end. (And let me just say that we here at TheHumanist.com are holding back the sad tears.) Written... Read More
Bill Nye Saves the World: “It’s Not Magic, it’s Science!”
Bill Nye’s classic program, Bill Nye the Science Guy, was a childhood staple of many millennials. Some of the best days in school were the ones where a television was rolled into the classroom and... Read More
TV Review: Reza Aslan’s Believer
The tone of Reza Aslan’s new television series Believer is a curious mixture of snobbishness and inclusivity. In it, the author and religious scholar immerses himself in some of the more markedly idiosyncratic religious faiths of the... Read More
The Comics Section: Self-Serving “Revelations,” Egg Hunts, and Impulse Items
Your favorites are back! Check out the latest from Jesus and Mo, The Atheist Pig, and Raging Pencils.
Life Without a Spine
Taxonomists have described more than a million species ... divided into more than twenty phyla. Of this plethora, vertebrates represent only part of one phylum, and a mere 40,000 species or so. —Stephen Jay Gould... Read More