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

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

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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

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

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

BY CHARLES MURN HUMANIST PRESS, 2018 450 PP.; $25.00 Charles Murn’s new collection, The Best of The Humanist: Humanist Philosophy 1928-1973, is a great resource for all humanists. Many of us cherish George Santayana’s 1918... Read More