The Ethical Dilemma: Advice for Coming Out as Atheist and Bisexual, and Agnostics Who Hate “God Bless You”
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
Finding E.T.: Yuri Milner Invests $100 Million to Search for Aliens
Last Monday, on the anniversary of the Apollo 11 Moon landing, Russian tech capitalist Yuri Milner—who was joined by SETI Institute founder Frank Drake,... Read More
The Cartoon History of Humanism, Episode 25 We’re All Mad Here: The Seventeenth Century Tolerance of Pierre Bayle
View all episodes in the Cartoon History of Humanism series. We’re All Mad Here: The Seventeenth Century Tolerance of Pierre Bayle “Behold the truth,”... Read More
Rules Are for Schmucks: Obergefell, Roe v. Wade, and Bob Jones
In 1985, a shrewd legal observer explained why she believed that the legalized abortion opinion in Roe v. Wade–not the narrow conclusion, but the... Read More
This S*** is Bananas…or Not
Bananas, the fruit Ray Comfort once described as the “atheists’ nightmare” (because they’re made by God to fit perfectly into the human hand), seem... Read More
Documentary Asks: Do I Sound Gay?
What does your voice sound like to you? For many people, listening back to recordings of their own voice is disorienting at best, and... Read More
The Humanist Hour #161: On the Historicity of Jesus, with Dr. Richard Carrier
Click to download an audio file of this podcast. In this episode, Kim Ellington speaks with Dr. Richard Carrier about the historicity of Jesus.... Read More
Fascists, Cowards, and Morons: Combating Anti-Muslim Bigotry While Maintaining Free Speech
Andrew Cummins once said, in a quote often misattributed to Christopher Hitchens, that Islamophobia is “a word created by fascists, and used by cowards, to... Read More
With Four July Victories, No Summer Lull for AHA’s Legal Team
July tends to be a slow month in the legal field, but not this year for the American Humanist Association’s Appignani Humanist Legal Center... Read More
Why Historically Black Colleges Are Still Relevant
Recently in the realm of higher education, there has been an ongoing discussion about historically black colleges and universities (HBCUs) and their relevance. In... Read More
