In his 2004 book The End of Faith, Sam Harris wrote, “If religious war is ever to become unthinkable for us, in the way... Read More

Not long ago, at the end of a public reading from my recently published novel, Eulogy, I was asked how writing the book changed me.... 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

As I follow the media stories surrounding the tragic death of Tamir Rice, a twelve-year-old boy who was shot and killed while he was... Read More

View all episodes in the Cartoon History of Humanism series. Keeping it Real: The Pragmatic Religious Skepticism of Niccolò Machiavelli Perhaps misrepresenting Machiavelli is... Read More

A New York Times op-ed piece last week shined some light into the one of the darkest corners of our society: the practice of... Read More

Don’t Give Me That Old Time Religion I have fortunately never encountered anyone who actually told me I was consigned to hell because I... Read More

On October 12, Jezebel ran a story with the headline: “Study Says People Who Take Coffee Black Have Psychopathic Tendencies.” Reporting on the same... Read More

Click to download an audio file of this podcast. In this episode, Peggy Knudtson speaks with former scientologist Chris Shelton at The Skeptics of... Read More

There is no shortage of news stories of “faith-healing” gone bad. Just last week, on October 16, six congregation members brutally beat two brothers... Read More