Film Review: Star Wars: The Force Awakens
For those of you who have been encased in carbonite for the last year or so, Star Wars: The Force Awakens was released this month after much anticipation. All across the country fans of the... Read More
The Skeletons of Dreams
He found giants in the earth: Mastodon, Mylodon, thigh bones like tree trunks, Megatherium, skull big as boulders—once, in this savage country, treetops trembled at their passing. But their passing was silent as snails, silent... Read More
Book Excerpt: The Great Transition: Shifting from Fossil Fuels to Solar and Wind Energy
The Great Transition: Shifting from Fossil Fuels to Solar and Wind Energy By Lester R. Brown, Janet Larsen, J. Matthew Roney, and Emily E. Adams W. W. Norton & Company (2015) From Chapter One: Changing... Read More
Two Years Eight Months and Twenty-Eight Nights
BOOK BY SALMAN RUSHDIE RANDOM HOUSE, 2015 304 PP.;$28.00 (HARDCOVER), $13.99 (KINDLE) This past September the celebrated and controversial author Salman Rushdie published Two Years Eight Months and Twenty-Eight Nights—his first adult novel since Enchantress... Read More
Apostate! No More Bazoodee: A Grenadian Quest to Think Outside the Box
BOOK BY SEON M. LEWIS LULU PUBLISHING, 2015 196 PP.; $15.00 The Caribbean has a ripe history of humanism and skepticism. Great humanists like the writer and theorist C. L. R. James, anthropologist J. A.... Read More
Islam and the Future of Tolerance: A Dialogue
BOOK BY SAM HARRIS AND MAAJID NAWAZ HARVARD UNIVERSITY PRESS, 2015 144 PP.; $17.95 (HARDCOVER), $9.99 (KINDLE) Sam Harris began his public-intellectual life back in 2004 with the release of his first book, The End... Read More
Humanist Voices in Verse: It Crawled From the Swamp (Inspired by Twas the Night Before Christmas)
This week’s poem is by Andrew Norman. Norman teaches philosophy at Carnegie Mellon University and writes and speaks about the philosophical foundations of humanism. His work has appeared in Free Inquiry, The Philosophical Quarterly, History... Read More