The White Imagination Must Be Bound
On Memorial Day, George Floyd became the latest Black life to be brutally taken at the hands of police officers. It happened after he... Read More
Secular America Takes Action Today, So They Can Vote Tomorrow
Here in the US, a secular voting bloc could have powerful potential to influence local and national elections. Recognizing that fact, in 2018 Secular... Read More
CHURCH & STATE | The Coronavirus Pandemic: Some Lessons I’ve Learned
The chances are good that by the time you read this, your state will be undergoing at least a partial reopening in light of... Read More
INSIDE THE WALLS | Remember the Dakotas
Despite being a humanist for over fifteen years, my views can be misanthropic from time to time. For example, earlier this year I took... Read More
What Would a Humanist Do? Thrilled about Fauci’s Humanism, Scared of Conservative Backlash
What Would a Humanist Do? offers multiple opinions on the same question. As with our long-running Humanist Dilemma column by Joan Reisman-Brill, readers often... Read More
Poetry
I need patience today, so I Google it to find patience comes from patientia, meaning sufferance, submissiveness, passiveness, enduring—all of this without complaining.... Read More
Richard Hofstadter: Anti-Intellectualism in American Life, The Paranoid Style in American Politics, Uncollected Essays 1956–1965
EDITED BY SEAN WILENTZ LIBRARY OF AMERICA, 2020 Conspiracy theories are the last refuge of the status quo—its last line of ideological defense. “It’s... Read More
Defund, Reallocate, Reshape, Humanize
Say his name. GEORGE FLOYD! Say her name. BREONNA TAYLOR! As hundreds marched up the main artery of my suburban Maryland town in support... Read More
Supreme, Obscene, and Everything in Between
It’s been one week since the US Supreme Court issued its 6-3 ruling in Bostock v. Clayton County, Georgia, making it illegal to fire... Read More
What Would a Humanist Do? Celebrating Juneteenth
Today we bring you our latest installment of “What Would a Humanist Do?”—offering multiple AHA staff opinions on the same question. As with our... Read More
