Active Duty: My Dedication to Liberty, Justice, and an End to Wars
Medea Benjamin has been an advocate for social justice for more than forty years. As an economist and nutritionist with the United Nations and... Read More
A Bridge Supreme: Connecting Humanism to a Liberal, Loving Christianity
John Shelby Spong was the Episcopal Bishop of Newark for over two decades before his retirement in 2000. As a visiting lecturer at Harvard... Read More
I Am What I Am, and Other Truths
In 1970 Ernie Chambers was elected to represent North Omaha’s 11th District in the Nebraska State Legislature as an independent, and was reelected each... Read More
Speeches from Awardees Elizabeth Loftus and John de Lancie
At an evening reception on Saturday, May 28, 2016, The American Humanist Association honored two extraordinary humanists at its 75th Anniversary Conference in Chicago,... Read More
To Enhance Justice: The Risk and Reward of Studying Memory
Elizabeth F. Loftus is one of the nation’s leading experts on memory, eyewitness testimony, and courtroom procedure. She has been an expert witness or... Read More
Inspiration, Sci-Fi, and the Importance of Driving Your Own Bus
Actor John de Lancie is a a graduate of the Julliard School who has appeared in numerous films and television shows. He’s perhaps best... Read More
The Case for Re-Enfranchisement
I was registering voters not too long before the California primary in June when two men came in. One registered, and the other thanked... Read More
Blasphemy Laws Attack Free Expression— Can Freethought Hit Back?
He dared to question God’s existence. His tweets did not go unnoticed. Now, an unidentified twenty-eight-year-old Saudi man faces $5,330 in fines, ten years... Read More
It Makes You Proud to be a Humanist
When you consider the names on the list of recipients of the Humanist of the Year award, and the contributions that these individuals have... Read More
No Moore: Alabama Is Finally Rid of the Worst Judge in America
ROY S. MOORE, chief justice of the Alabama Supreme Court, has lost his job—again. This is cause for celebration. It means that we may... Read More
