The Humanist Dilemma: Is My Married Coworker/Best Friend Interested in Me?
Experiencing a humanist 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 Necessary Chore of Talking to Trump Supporters
In the wake of the 2016 election results, pundits and analysts trying to understand Trump voters continue to center the pain and desires of... Read More
The Cartoon History of Humanism, Episode 47 How to Resist Power: Tips from Bertrand Russell's Century of Humanism
View all episodes in the Cartoon History of Humanism series. How to Resist Power: Tips from Bertrand Russell's Century of Humanism One of the... Read More
Post-Election, Humanist Activism Kicks into Overdrive
It’s been a week since Donald Trump’s harrowing victory. I’m in a mental space where my dismay and fury over this precarious predicament remains... Read More
A Potential Who’s Who in the Trump Administration
As the world watches with uncertainty regarding what a Donald Trump presidency will bring, the media has been buzzing about appointments to Trump’s transition... Read More
Theater Review: Young Jean Lee’s Pullman, WA
I walk into the Woolly Mammoth Theatre in Washington, DC, well-known in the city for its innovative performances, and enter the Melton Rehearsal Hall,... Read More
Film Review: Arrival
Arrival has the remarkable qualities of all Denis Villeneuve’s films, which include Prisoners and Enemy (both released in 2013), and last year’s Sicario. Its cinematography is brilliant,... Read More
Book Review: Killing the Rising Sun by Bill O’Reilly
In a way Bill O’Reilly is a literary version of Donald Trump—a man hell-bent on justifying his intellect by rehashing history while digging only... Read More
“This Is a Movement, Not a Moment!”: In It for the Long Haul in Protesting Trump
Last night, I marched with hundreds of other people in Washington, DC, from the Trump International Hotel to the White House. The people there... Read More
Rules Are for Schmucks: Religion, Land, and Anarchy
“Off the charts unbelievable”—so ran the headline about the acquittal of seven protesters who had occupied the Malheur Wildlife Refuge in Oregon earlier this... Read More
