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Can We Talk? Seeking Individual Exchange and Avoiding Microaggressions
In a Washington Post article last week Fred Barbash discussed the “war on ‘microaggressions’” and asked: “Has it created a ‘victimhood culture’ on campuses?”... Read More
Rules Are for Schmucks: Religious Immunity from Surveillance
Last week I wrote about “America’s Newest Religion,” an outfit calling itself the “Creativity Movement” that advocates white supremacy in the crudest terms. A... Read More
Poll: What Motto Would You Like to See Replace “In God We Trust?”
In 1956, the phrase "In God We Trust" was adopted as the official motto of the United States, replacing the original motto "E Pluribus... Read More
Filtering Fact from Fiction: A Humanist Response to GMOs
Last week, despite protests from anti-GMO groups, the European Parliament rejected a measure that would allow individual countries to ban genetically modified organisms (GMOs)... Read More
Would It Ever Be Ethical to Read Someone’s Mind?
If we could reach deep into the mind of another person, what would we find? Perhaps to know the mind of another is to... Read More
Can a Child Choose the Right to Die?
For years, the American Humanist Association and countless humanists across the country have advocated for the right of people with terminal illnesses or who... Read More
The Missing Link: Humanists at the Parliament of World Religions
Reporter Rory Fenton wrote on The Guardian in 2011 that “There is a gaping, atheist-shaped hole in the interfaith movement.” As a humanist attending... Read More
At the United Nations, More Work to Be Done for Religious Freedom and the Rights of the Child
At the United Nations this week, the Special Rapporteur on Freedom of Religion or Belief, Heiner Bielefeldt, provided an update on the state of... Read More
The Ethical Dilemma: It’s Fun to Stay at the YMCA—Unless You’re an Atheist
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