THE HUMANIST INTERVIEW with Josh Tickell

Josh Tickell is one of the nation’s leading experts on alternative fuels and the author of From the Fryer to the Fuel Tank (2003)... Read More
The Age of Barbaria

Translated by Bruce Campbell Annual trips back to the year 33 began in the Age of Barbaria. That year was selected because, according to... Read More
Paradiso

Paradiso No blue grocery bags rustle from the lindens lining the freshly paved avenues. No women stop before windows to stare at mannequins blank... Read More
Of Crows

The beauty of crows should not be forgotten. When colored bullets race down the road's black veins, Their short, broad wings deliver them skyward.... Read More
This Is the Time for Which We Have Been Waiting

Dear Jim, I finally got your letter enclosing Your letter enclocussing your letter which was so ompportant foe me, thannkouk yuon very much. In... Read More
Mapping Metaphor: This Is Your Brain on Figurative Language

“Children may not understand political alliances or intellectual argumentation, but they surely understand rubber bands and fistfights.”--Steven Pinker, from The Stuff of Thought: Language as... Read More
HNN #30: Greg Graffin of Bad Religion

In this month's audio podcast we speak to Greg Graffin, Ph.D., lead singer of the punk rock band Bad Religion and professor of life... Read More
The Mind of the Market: Compassionate Apes, Competitive Humans, and Other Tales from Evolutionary Economics

Competition, cooperation, and compassion all play a part in free market systems--and the use of these traits can be explained with an economic analogy... Read More
Teach Your Children Well: The First Rule of Any Civilized Society

Bad law can result in bad decisions. Californians found that out February 28 when the 2nd District Court of Appeal ruled that parents wishing... Read More
Nichol’s Tribe

Gene Nichol came to the Presidency of the College of William and Mary with all the populist flair of Willie Stark in Robert Penn... Read More