Humanist Q&A: Steven Pinker & Joyce Carol Oates
7 Questions for Steven Pinker, 2006 Humanist of the Year Steven Pinker is a cognitive scientist, psychologist, linguist, popular science author, and Johnstone Family... Read More
Compelling Optimism
"HOW CAN YOU STAND IT?" The young woman appeared to be on the brink of tears but there was anger in her voice too.... Read More
Terror-Go-Round: Breaking the Cycle of Xenophobia
As the German and French national football teams entertained a crowd of 80,000 supporters inside Paris’s Stade de France on Friday, November 13, three... Read More
Why the Humanist Magazine Matters
(Please see AHA’s statement on sexual harassment allegations against Dr. Krauss here.) I FRANKLY ADMIT that when I first learned the Humanist magazine and... Read More
How Much Tolerance is Tolerable? The danger, disservice, and dishonesty of equating tolerance for people of differing faith with tolerance for religious beliefs and ideas
In the past two months alone, an abhorrent wave of terror has taken the lives of hundreds of people and left thousands feeling devastated.... Read More
For a New Year: Kiss Someone You Love and Hug Someone Who’s Different than You
SEVENTY-FIVE YEARS is more than just three-quarters of the way to a century. If you’ve worked hard and you’re in good health and you’ve... Read More
Humanists and the Rise of “Post-Truth America”
DONALD TRUMP SAW THOUSANDS of Muslims dancing with joy in New Jersey on September 11, 2001. Carly Fiorina watched a video of Planned Parenthood... Read More
Subjective Tastes & Character Judgments—Two Great Flavors that Taste Lousy Together
“ALL I HEAR ABOUT these days is the NBA finals. Who are these brainless yahoos who get so obsessed about a ball going into... Read More
My Conversion
In Their Own Words: Humanists Discuss Their Paths to Humanism I WAS SIX YEARS OLD and stricken with grief over the recent death of... Read More
The Ultimate Responsibility As two lives end, a son discovers humanism
In Their Own Words: Humanists Discuss Their Paths to Humanism AT 2:30 A.M. on November 2, 2014, I received a call from my sister... Read More
