Science and religion must both be re-conceptualized in order to provide the new foundation for civilization. First, they must both be recognized as existing... Read More

This week’s poem is by Daniel Thomas Moran, TheHumanist.com poetry editor, retired dentist and Boston University Assistant Professor, former Poet Laureate of Suffolk County,... 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

New comics by Jesus and Mo, Ape Not Monkey, and The Bad Chemicals!              

While reading Stephen Greenblatt’s award-winning book, The Swerve, three years ago, I stumbled on a delightful fact. It seems that devotees of the Greek... Read More

Many of today’s human problems—war, crime, disease, incarceration, starvation, lack of love, abuse of others—could be dealt with far better without an  accompanying supernatural... Read More

The basic premise of the Affordable Care Act (ACA) is that everybody gets sick at some point, some in ways far more expensive to... Read More

“Creativity” is a word often associated with the beautiful in form and function, something precious to human beings, who tend to think they invented... Read More

This article is part of Carl Coon’s ongoing “A Short History of Evolution” series. Click here to read all entries in this series.

If Cosmos is forbidden fruit, then count me as one of the deflowered. As I wrote last week, I never watched the original Cosmos... Read More