A new episode of the Humanist Hour is available for listening. Keep reading to find out about the guest on this month's show. In... Read More

Roger Ebert was born on June 18, 1942, in Urbana, Illinois. He was the only child of Annabel (a bookkeeper) and Walter Ebert (an... Read More

If ever there were a day deserving to be called—secularly—a “day of reckoning,” this would be the day for Owen Ross, the forty-seven-year-old protagonist... Read More

Greg Lukianoff is the president of FIRE—the Foundation for Individual Rights in Education. FIRE is a nonprofit educational foundation that supports free expression, academic... Read More

In “Love on Campus,” William Deresiewicz’s 2007 American Scholar piece, he made a fleeting yet apposite comment: in the popular media, professors—however moral or... Read More

I perforce begin with a confession: I couldn’t finish Salman Rushdie’s two most notable novels, Midnight’s Children and The Satanic Verses. I don’t love... Read More

When Katherine Stewart first saw a program called the “Good News Club” on the list of available after-school activities at her daughter’s public elementary... Read More

This afternoon a student passed me, grinning. She’d just visited the eastern-most toilet stall in the “senior” bathroom. The room is decrepit, the soap... Read More

“How can life have meaning without God?” Pretty much every atheist or humanist I know has gotten this question. It’s often asked in a... Read More

On June 17, 1963, the U.S. Supreme Court handed down one of its most important rulings dealing with the role of religion in public... Read More