Rules Are for Schmucks: Bigotry plus Greed
Same-sex marriage first became legal in Pennsylvania last May, when a federal district court ruled that the state’s statutory ban on marriage equality violated... Read More
Favorite Pastime? A Seventh-Inning Walk through Hell in a Gasoline Suit
“I’d walk through hell in a gasoline suit to play baseball.” –Pete Rose Ah, yes, nothing unites—and divides—our country like that great game of... Read More
Laughter and Tears for Science Education: An Interview with Eugenie Scott Part One
If advocate and anthropologist Eugenie Scott hadn’t spent so much of her life as executive director of the National Center for Science Education (NCSE)... Read More
The Humanist Hour #120: Should Humanists Criticize Islam? The Pros and Cons, with Muhammad Syed and Sarah Haider
Click here to download an audio file of this podcast. In this episode, Bo Bennett speaks with Muhammad Syed and Sarah Haider on the... Read More
Forget Blessed: Can’t We All Just Have a “Nice” Day?
Reader Laurel Harry, a member of the American Humanist Association, recently shared the following letter with us (reprinted here with her permission): I am... Read More
The Need to Belong
Humans began as tribal animals. Given current headlines, we know that tribalism and the labels it uses are still present. Tribalism is killing many... Read More
Censoring American History
My students walked out on me last week. Just got up, left my classroom and marched right out of the school. I’ve been an... Read More
Nicolas Cage: “Left Behind” at the Box Office
Right after its opening weekend I enjoyed a screening of Left Behind with seven other people—these being all the patrons in the audience besides... Read More
Don’t Celebrate Columbus. Honor Native People.
Today is Columbus Day, a federally-observed holiday and the day on which Americans celebrate Christopher Columbus’ “discovery” of the new world. Many are reluctant... Read More
The Comics Section: A Religion for Atheists, and Try Not to Think About It
New comics by Jesus and Mo and The Bad Chemicals!
