Book Excerpt: Because I Say So The Dangerous Appeal of Moral Authority

by Nikki Stern

Like a number of progressives, skeptics, and humanists, author Nikki Stern resisted the wholesale rush to judgment after the terrorist attacks on September 11, 2001.... Read More

Mastering the Camera

by Frédéric Perrier

“He was usually not pictorially dramatic and many of his photographs appeared flat—not shocking enough for his contemporaries. The people in the photographs communicate... Read More

Remembering Lewis Hine

by Terry E. Lockett

"Kindly, trustful, wistful, amazingly innocent, his front is a mask for his power. He looks like an unworldly schoolteacher, needing protection from the rigors... Read More

A Free Speech Challenge for Parents

by Joseph J. Horton

Should a thirteen-year-old be able to purchase a school-shooting simulator without parents’ knowledge or consent? The Supreme Court says that freedom of speech requires... Read More

Stop Saying “Same-Sex” Marriage

by Jason Frye

On July 24 New York became the sixth state to offer officially recognized marriage licenses to same-sex couples; but it didn’t recognize same-sex marriage.... Read More

EDITOR’S NOTE

by Jennifer Bardi

DID YOU HEAR THE ONE about the rich getting to keep their tax loopholes and havens while the numbers of poor people in the... Read More

AHA Named

The American Humanist Association has recently been named an “Accredited Charity” by the Better Business Bureau’s Wise Giving Alliance by meeting all 20 rigorous... Read More