From the AHA Archives: Corliss Lamont
Listen to the keynote speech by civil liberties activist and past AHA president Corliss Lamont at the AHA’s 41st Annual Conference at the Massachusetts... Read More
Celebrating the Celebrants: A Profile of Janis Levin-Gorelick
Janis Levin-Gorelick became certified as a Humanist Minister with the Humanist Society in 1995. Since then, she has been successful in her field and... Read More
Music Selections for a Humanist Funeral
By Steve Major Recently there was a very interesting and popular article in HNN about what to say to a grieving humanist, since so... Read More
Book Review: The Swerve by Stephen Greenblatt
Awarded the 2012 Pulitzer Prize for non-fiction, Stephen Greenblatt’s new book The Swerve: How the World Became Modern gives us a fascinating, if somewhat... Read More
Humanist Voices in Verse:
This week we’re featuring a poem by a new contributor, Sylvia Ramos Cruz. Ramos Cruz is a physician and surgeon, gardener and world traveler... Read More
The Comics Section: Religious Beer, Secular Lemonade, and Tattoos
The latest from Jesus and Mo, Ape Not Monkey, and The Bad Chemicals!
Getting Real: A Look at the New Skepticism
It's been a hot day even for Las Vegas, and outside the South Point Hotel and Casino the morning traffic crawls in sluggish resignation.... Read More
Thinking Like a Scientist The Humanist Interview with Congressman Rush Holt
Constituents of Rush Holt, the popular congressman representing central New Jersey, like to flaunt bumper stickers that declare: “My congressman IS a rocket scientist.”... Read More
Religious Freedom or Government-Sanctioned Discrimination? Julea Ward vs. Eastern Michigan University
In 2006 Julea Ward, a suburban Detroit high school teacher, enrolled in a master’s program at Eastern Michigan University (EMU) with the goal of... Read More
Torture on Trial Legal and Humane Frameworks for Opposing Torture
Cases come in by the thousands from all over the world. A man was beaten and whipped. A woman was beaten and raped. A boy was... Read More
