By now everyone knows that on June 26 the U.S. Supreme Court issued a landmark decision extending marriage equality nationwide. The five-to-four ruling in... Read More

So I’ve been trying this thing. If I’m contemplating a change in my thinking or my life—especially for ethical reasons—I shift my perspective for... Read More

I paced the living room, charged with fear and frustration, but I wasn’t going to find my lost faith in the sofa cushions. There... Read More

Morning light filters dimly through dense fog, spreads past beachcombers who fail to see the roiling waters. Barely outlining headlands, a sunbeam holds on... Read More

On June 26 President Barack Obama delivered the eulogy for Rev. Clementa Pinckney at the Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church in Charleston, South Carolina,... Read More

One of my history-minded friends has a long-range political view summed up in three words: liberals always win. Complex social struggles may take centuries... Read More

We humanists pride ourselves on being rational. This focus on reason seems especially prominent amongst humanists who were previously entrenched in religious communities. In... Read More

WHILE I DO love to quote people who say profound and entertaining things, I’m not normally one for adages. But here’s one that’s apropos:... Read More

View all episodes in the Cartoon History of Humanism series. Novelist. Journalist. Spy. Wit and Sexual Liberation in Seventeenth-Century England There was a time,... Read More

“I’ve had men throw dollar bills at me in a professional office (by an employee who works at that company, during work hours). I’ve had an... Read More