This summer marked the ten-year anniversary of Al Gore’s groundbreaking climate change documentary An Inconvenient Truth, and a pertinent reminder of the climate catastrophe arrived on National Geographic this week in the form of actor... Read More

Though atheism is sometimes criticized for not having musical traditions as the world’s religions do (an erroneous assumption that we have debunked), rock music has long been dismissed as godless or “the devil’s music.” Even... Read More

View all episodes in the Cartoon History of Humanism series. He Wasn't There: Nella Larsen and the Harlem Renaissance's Great Atheist Novel Quicksand, Nella Larsen's first novel, is one of literature's profound mysteries. It is... Read More

Christian evangelist Ray Comfort asks the big questions. Well, one question (and it kind of has to do with the small): Is DNA intelligently designed? In the words of PZ Myers, the answer is, “No.”... Read More

We are grateful to be In a universe in which stars Are born and over time will die Giving forth the elements of everything. We are grateful to be On a planet orbiting a star... Read More

BOOK BY SIDDARTHA MUKHERJEE SCRIBNER, 2016 608PP.; $38.00 At first glance, The Gene: An Intimate History may not be the best book for light reading. In nearly 500 pages, with an additional hundred pages of... Read More

When 5 percent of the US population owns 63 percent of the country’s wealth and the bottom 40 percent of the population has none, and as the US middle class continues to shrink, the humanist... Read More