It Happens Here: Sexism, Harassment, Assault, and Apologists
This is the second appearance of a new semi-regular column, “It Happens Here,” challenging humanists to reflect on adversity and trauma in our own community,... Read More
Humanists Going All the Way: AHA to Defend Church-State Separation at the Supreme Court
On Friday, the US Supreme Court announced that it would hear arguments from the American Humanist Association regarding the unconstitutionality of a forty-foot-tall Christian... Read More
Film Review: Free Solo
The cinematography alone is reason for an unacquainted viewer to see the 2018 climbing documentary Free Solo. The film documents thirty-three-year-old American climber Alex... Read More
The Humanist Dilemma: Is a Woman Who’s Content to Be Rich and Apolitical onto Something?
Experiencing an ethical dilemma? Need advice from a humanist perspective? Send your questions to The Humanist Dilemma at dilemma@thehumanist.com (subject line: Humanist Dilemma). All... Read More
The Comics Section: Assigning Blame and Marching Orders
The latest from Jesus and Mo and Raging Pencils!
Rules Are for Schmucks: Religious Liberty vs. the Rule of Law
Frederick Clarkson at Rewire News reports that sometime in the near future, with great fanfare, a new “American Charter of Freedom of Religion and... Read More
Witches and Wellness: What to Make of the Growing Numbers
On the evening of Saturday, October 20, dozens of people, mainly women, gathered in the back room of an occult bookstore in Brooklyn. Reporters... Read More
Humanist Halloween: Fake Scares for a Change
These are truly scary times that have nothing to do with Halloween. The anti-Semitic attack at the Tree of Life synagogue four days ago... Read More
Curbing Hate: It’s Time for Tech Platforms to Address the Mess They Helped Create
Months before Robert Bowers gunned down eleven Jewish congregants at the Tree of Life synagogue in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, he posted anti-Semitic, hate-filled vitriol on... Read More
Film Review: 22 July
Seven years ago—on July 22, 2011—Anders Behring Brevik ignited a car bomb in front of a government building in Oslo, Norway. He then traveled... Read More