The Monster Hijacking Human Minds
DEEP IN THE SWELTERING jungles of the Amazon, embedded within bird droppings, are eggs belonging to a nematode worm known as Myrmeconema neotropicum. Soon,... Read More
Call in the Robocops With Democracy at Risk, Can We Quell Internet Bots & Trolls?
RELAX. An army of content reviewers some 10,000 strong is busy weeding out malicious posts and fake news from your favorite social media. Soon,... Read More
How the Loss of Critical Reasoning is Harming America An Interview with Kurt Andersen
KURT ANDERSEN is a writer whose works include the bestselling novels You Can’t Spell America Without Me, True Believers, Heyday, and Turn of the... Read More
The Making of a Modern Pilgrim
The Camino de Santiago is a pilgrimage like no other, defying conventional wisdom about what constitutes a pilgrim, and about the supposedly unavoidable schism... Read More
Seven Days in Cuba
THE ISLAND OF CUBA and its circumstances, both presently and historically, are not easy subjects. The effect Cuba has had on the United States... Read More
On Policies and Purple
On May 27, 2017, The Humanist Institute hosted an all-day symposium at the First Unitarian Society of Minneapolis titled “Social Justice: Addressing the Narrative... Read More
CNN and Trump: A Noxious Marriage
Not content to let the nation celebrate the Thanksgiving holiday weekend in peace, CNN and the president were back at it, twisted together in... Read More
Tearing Down the Toxic Male Fraternity If you aren’t an active part of the solution, you are unquestionably a part of the problem.
In the summer of 2016, award-winning actor Will Smith made an appearance on The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon to promote what was then... Read More
Humanist Goals Confessions of a Major League Soccer Ultra
I USED TO SCOFF when I heard sports commentators glorify a team’s supporters by saying things like, “Football is a religion for [team name... Read More
Can American Democracy Survive Trump’s Reign of Lies?
My mother was a fan of Simon and Garfunkel, and I grew up hearing a lot of their music. I came to appreciate the... Read More