CHURCH & STATE | Of Socks and Separation: Engagement Is Key to Rebuilding the Wall
There’s a lot I don’t know as I write this column in early October: Who will be elected president? Will the results be challenged... Read More
INSIDE THE WALLS | Down and Out—Expanding Our Thinking to Survive
Since it’s possible to get so many scientists on the same page to, say, create a vaccine against a particular strain of the flu,... Read More
Veritas: A Harvard Professor, a Con Man and the Gospel of Jesus’s Wife
BY ARIEL SABAR DOUBLEDAY, 2020 Ariel Sabar probably considered “veritas”—Latin for “truth” and the motto of Harvard University—the perfect ironic title for this book.... Read More
Evil Geniuses: The Unmaking of America: A Recent History
BY KURT ANDERSEN RANDOM HOUSE, 2020 If you like conspiracy theories, Kurt Andersen has a good one for you. Once upon a time there... Read More
The Goodness Paradox: The Strange Relationship Between Virtue and Violence in Human Evolution
BY RICHARD WRANGHAM VINTAGE BOOKS, 2019 Already in the preface, Richard Wrangham’s The Goodness Paradox put a smile on my face. Wrangham there advocates... Read More
It’s Been Real
Like most anyone with a heart and a pulse, I’ve been thinking about the loss of Ruth Bader Ginsburg and the future of our... Read More
What Would a Humanist Do? When Holidays and Health Collide
Today we bring you our latest installment of “What Would a Humanist Do?”—offering multiple AHA staff opinions on reader questions. Because while humanists are committed to... Read More
The Comics Section: The Peace of Dogs and Sanitize or Treat
The latest from Cagle Cartoons! "Difficult Times" by Randall Enos, Easton, CT "Halloween and Covid" by Jeff Koterba, CagleCartoons.com
Ode to the Vote However they do it, so many Americans are doing it
Smashed. Unprecedented. Historic. As minutely detailed by the US Election Project, 2020 is shattering records for early voting. As of 9 a.m. today, 45,272,131... Read More
The Amazing James Randi (1928-2020)
“Hanging over Niagara Falls in a straightjacket is something you can do for a number of years, but it’s strenuous. I got tired of... Read More