A Crack in Creation: Gene Editing and the Unthinkable Power to Control Evolution
BOOK BY JENNIFER DOUDNA AND SAMUEL STERNBERG HOUGHTON MIFFLIN HARCOURT, 2017 304 PP.; $28.00 (HARDCOVER) $14.99 (KINDLE) CRISPR is the basis of a genome... Read More
Cigarettes & Wine
BOOK BY J.E. SUMERAU SENSE PUBLISHERS, 2017 250 PP.; $25.00 Cigarettes & Wine, by J.E. Sumerau, is a novel that illuminates fresh perspectives on... Read More
Fantasyland: How America Went Haywire: A 500-Year History
BOOK BY KURT ANDERSEN RANDOM HOUSE, 2017 480 PP.; $30.00 In James Joyce’s Ulysses, Stephen Dedalus claims that history is a nightmare from which... Read More
The Time Is Ripe for Some Good Old Humanist Inspiration
I DON’T KNOW ABOUT YOU, but I’m really freaked out these days. Last weekend my daughter (soon to be thirteen) told me she felt... Read More
The X-Man Effect: When Genetics Catch Up to Human Mutation
I am not a geneticist. In fact, when meeting with scientists at the National Institute of Health (NIH), I often paraphrase Denzel Washington’s famous... Read More
Richard Spencer Pays $10,000 to Get Heckled
What bothers me most about Richard Spencer is obviously the white nationalism, but a close second is the fact that he’s defiling the name... Read More
Preserving Whose History?
With the Fourth Circuit US Court of Appeals’ decision to uphold the separation of church and state (by determining that the Bladensburg cross was... Read More
TV Review: Star Trek: Discovery
This review is based on the first four episodes of the new Star Trek series, and CONTAINS SPOILERS for the show up until that... Read More
The Humanist Dilemma: Since When Is It OK to Play Cruel Jokes on Little Kids?
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: Unchanging Truth, Raw Sewage, and Outspoken Atheists
Your favorites from Jesus and Mo, Raging Pencils, and The Atheist Pig!