Over the past several months, we’ve gotten a sense of how the 2016 presidential elections are shaping up. Well, at least for the primary.... Read More

In case you had any lingering doubts, the recently released 2014 Pew Religious Landscape Study has found that “the rise of the nones” is... Read More

“Lord, I am not worthy that you should enter under my roof, but only say the word, and my soul shall be healed.”

For a bulk of it, 1,000 Lashes seems like a compellingly dull book. If its passages were published in, for example, The New York Times, they would probably... 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

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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

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

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

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