Humanist in the House An Interview with US Representative Jared Huffman, 2020 Humanist of the Year
The following is adapted (with permission) from my presentation of the Humanist of the Year Award to Rep. Huffman at the American Humanist Association’s... Read More
The Necessary Discomfort of Progress
ALLOW ME TO BEGIN with a story I’m embarrassed to tell. After my divorce some years ago, I dipped my toes into the tepid,... Read More
Beyond European Colonialism: An Interview with Jé Hooper and David Breeden
JÉ EXODUS HOOPER AND REV. DR. DAVID BREEDEN presented together at the American Humanist Association’s 79th Annual Conference, “Distant but Together: A Virtual Celebration... Read More
Notoriously Humanistic: In Praise of Ruth Bader Ginsburg’s Jurisprudence
We lost a champion of humanist values and liberal jurisprudence with the death of Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg on September 18. One... Read More
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