The Ethical Dilemma: Faking Muslim
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
Contest Winner: How Would You Rewrite the Pledge of Allegiance?
Thank you to the over 100 entries for our “How Would You Rewrite the Pledge of Allegiance?” Contest! We read through every email and... Read More
It’s About Choice Activists and leaders gather in Chicago to discuss end-of-life issues
“It’s about choice and I want to have it, exclaimed Carolyn Almen, who was attending the World Federation of Right to Die Societies conference... Read More
Rules Are for Schmucks: It’s Not Okay to Cite the Bible When Talking about Global Warming
Secretary of State John Kerry did a great disservice to the debate over the response to global warming last month by dragging religion into... Read More
The Humanist Hour #119, From the Archives: An Interview with Kurt Vonnegut
Click here to download an audio file of this podcast. In this episode, TheHumanist.com contributor Dan Moran shares his 1992 interview with the late... Read More
Syria, Secularism, and U.S. Policy
In a groundbreaking article, one of our more respected experts on Middle East affairs has proposed that our policy should pivot to outright cooperation... Read More
Atheists and Aliens: Would the Existence of Extraterrestrials Mean the End of Religion?
In A Brief History of Time Professor Stephen Hawking asks, “…if the universe is really completely self-contained, having no boundary or edge, it would... Read More
On the Hill: Four Bills Congress Needs to Pass before the End of 2014
With the 2014 congressional elections fast approaching, Congress is on yet another recess, this one lasting until November 12. In these five weeks Representatives... Read More
Yes Means Yes: A New Law to Help Protect Women and Men from Sexual Assault
The first “Religion and the Media” class I taught in the United Kingdom’s state-maintained schools was in 2004. Students in the religious studies classes... Read More
We Owe Our Children Quality Educational TV
I did not want for quality educational programming when I was a child. I was surrounded with the likes of Bill Nye “The Science... Read More
