Non-Lethal Weapon: How Lessons Learned in War Can Make Peace at Home
We’ve all heard of a “win-win” situation before. When it comes to a conflict, people on all sides tend to better flourish when they... Read More
Leading a Law to Extinction: Endangered Species and the GOP
In its first few weeks in power, the Trump administration has already targeted NASA, the Environmental Protection Agency, the National Parks Service, and the... Read More
Humanist EDge: Benefits of the Humanist Institute
Upon retirement, I was eager to put my time to use in a way that helped people. My education was in biology and I... Read More
Towards a Post-Lies Future Fighting "Alternative Facts" and "Post-Truth" Politics
DONALD TRUMP is our first post-truth president. And he may well be the first of many. The Oxford Dictionaries website chose “post-truth” as... Read More
The New Secular Moment
IT'S BEEN A DECADE since the Four Horsemen of the New Atheism jolted the public conversation about religion and emboldened a growing population of... Read More
Fundamentalism on Trial How Twelve Claims of the Christian Right Fail under Strict Secular Scrutiny
THE EMINENT University of Chicago historian Daniel Boorstin identified American humanism as the defining characteristic of the nation, which is the legacy of Thomas... Read More
The Arts for Humanists
OVER THE YEARS my wife and I have been very fortunate to have visited many of the great cities of Europe. One of the... Read More
The Speed of Thought What the Revolution in Neuroscience Will Mean for Humanism
WE FIND OURSELVES amidst a revolution in neuroscience—the new neuroscience, if you will. In the United States the most visible face of this new... Read More
Save Our Science, Save Our Planet
2016 was the hottest year on record, 2015 and 2014 come in second and third, respectively, and 2017 seems like it’ll fall right in... Read More
Finding Trump’s Refugee Policy Will Christians Be Prioritized?
Over the last weekend of January, Donald Trump screened his very first movie at the White House Family Theater: Finding Dory. He sat in... Read More