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
The Comics Section: Protecting Rights and Fighting Colds
The latest from Cagle Cartoons and Raging Pencils. Cartoon by Adam Zyglis, The Buffalo News, NY
Humanist Pride: Celebrating Nontheistic LGBTQ Elected Officials
In honor of Pride Month, we’re featuring profiles of prominent LGBTQ humanists and atheists. This week, we feature two state-level elected officials, Megan Hunt... Read More
Unprecedented and Unconstitutional: The Government Bailout of Religion during a Pandemic
The Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security (CARES) Act has been criticized for not doing enough to help working class and poor Americans, instead... Read More
Could “Defund the Police” Mean More Justice?
Over the last couple weeks at protests and rallies standing up against racial injustice, one phrase has stuck out as particularly controversial—“defund the police.”... Read More
