View all episodes in the Cartoon History of Humanism series. Gods, Words, and Other Invasive Species: The Work of Daniel Dennett, Querysmith And one day, came the Horsemen. All in a lurch, atheism went from... Read More

Life is short and books are plenty. We humanists, being avid readers, know well the frustration of not having the time to read every book that interests us. Now that I’ve turned eighty-four and am... Read More

Camille Paglia has the instincts of a court jester and the tastes of a bank manager. Free Women, Free Men: Sex, Gender, Feminism is her third and latest collection of essays (although most the pieces in it... Read More

New comics by Jesus and Mo, The Atheist Pig, and Raging Pencils!              

How bad is the scripture-based humor in The Shack, a film that hit theaters Friday and is being promoted as an uplifting spiritual journey? When Mack Phillips (Sam Worthington) first meets the Father, the Son and... Read More

New comics by Jesus and Mo, The Atheist Pig, and Raging Pencils!              

Both left- and right-wing intellectuals agree that metaphysical convictions (our ideas about the fundamentals of reality) have social and political implications. The former's reasons for believing this tend to be unintelligible (or at least incommunicable), whereas... Read More