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He found giants in the earth: Mastodon, Mylodon, thigh bones like tree trunks, Megatherium, skull big as boulders—once, in this savage country, treetops trembled... Read More

The Great Transition: Shifting from Fossil Fuels to Solar and Wind Energy By Lester R. Brown, Janet Larsen, J. Matthew Roney, and Emily E.... Read More

BOOK BY SALMAN RUSHDIE RANDOM HOUSE, 2015 304 PP.;$28.00 (HARDCOVER), $13.99 (KINDLE) This past September the celebrated and controversial author Salman Rushdie published Two... Read More

BOOK BY SEON M. LEWIS LULU PUBLISHING, 2015 196 PP.; $15.00 The Caribbean has a ripe history of humanism and skepticism. Great humanists like... Read More

BOOK BY SAM HARRIS AND MAAJID NAWAZ HARVARD UNIVERSITY PRESS, 2015 144 PP.; $17.95 (HARDCOVER), $9.99 (KINDLE) Sam Harris began his public-intellectual life back... Read More

TheHumanist.com published many fantastic articles in 2015 examining news, politics, science, and culture from a humanist perspective—but which pieces were the most popular? Check... Read More

Experiencing an ethical dilemma? Need advice from a humanist perspective? Send your questions to The Ethical Dilemma at dilemma@thehumanist.com (subject line: Ethical Dilemma). All... Read More

This week’s poem is by Andrew Norman. Norman teaches philosophy at Carnegie Mellon University and writes and speaks about the philosophical foundations of humanism.... Read More

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