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

BY ANDREW SEIDEL STERLING, 2019 352 PP.; $24.95 The first thing I’ll say about Andrew Seidel’s The Founding Myth: Why Christian Nationalism Is Un-American... Read More

BY COREY ROBIN HENRY HOLT & CO., 2019 320 PP.; $30.00 Clarence Thomas is the most right-wing justice on the Supreme Court, and one... Read More

BY PHIL ZUCKERMAN COUNTERPOINT PRESS, 2019 400 PP.; $28.00 In his new book, What it Means to Be Moral: Why Religion is Not Necessary... Read More