AS YOU LIE UNDER A SPRAWLING OAK, admiring the play of sun and shade, it’s easy to fall for the illusion that all is... Read More

RELIGIOUS FEELING has always been a catalyst for both extreme resistance and extreme acquiescence to power. As Frederick Douglass wrote in his 1845 memoir,... Read More

IN THE SUMMER OF 2014, following the completion of a bachelor’s degree in history and then a traumatic and exhausting stint working for the... Read More

After the latest round of mass shootings over the course of two weekends—gun violence that claimed a life in the Brownsville neighborhood of Brooklyn;... Read More

This summer I participated in the US State Department’s Ministerial to Advance Religious Freedom on behalf of the American Humanist Association. The event, held... Read More

Public schools serve 90 percent of America’s children. Yet lately, it seems, the system is treated as an afterthought by politicians at the national... Read More

It is said that the depressed see reality clearer than most. I take issue with that view because when we’re depressed we may be... Read More

There’s a story in the life of the great humanist thinker Bertrand Russell that those who know him primarily as a philosopher may not... Read More

“Life imitates art far more than art imitates life,” Oscar Wilde professed. What I’m sure of is that artists often see something in life... Read More

Realm of Rigid Bubbles: I happen to travel in various circles of people. Within each circle, most people seem to agree on many basic... Read More