Earth Over the Brink
Glacier National Park is drip, drip, dripping into a puddle. People and companies and governments are cutting down trees to burn them to save... Read More
Living with Geoengineering Injecting sulfate aerosols into the stratosphere would cool the planet considerably, so what’s holding us back? Quite a few things.
This past October the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) released a report saying that our current course will produce catastrophic results across the... Read More
Have We Crossed a Line with Social Media?
I'm one of those semi-reluctant social media interactors who has to engage a bit for work but who mainly enjoys the cute cat and... Read More
CHURCH & STATE | Cross Purposes
The Symbol of America’s Majority Religion Can’t Memorialize Non-Christians The Washington, DC, suburb of Bladensburg, Maryland, is home to a forty-foot-tall cross that sits... Read More
FIRST PERSON | Remission
Remission is possible. However, there really is no cure.” Any patient hearing these words feels upset, frightened, and bewildered as processing such information is... Read More
INSIDE THE WALLS | If Only More Atheists Robbed Banks
The Cell-Bunk Perspective on Forming a Humanist Study Group I’m sitting on my cell bunk poring over a small stack of stats in fact-checking... Read More
HUMANIST DILEMMA | How Do I Tell My Sister She Can’t Have My Sperm?
Q: My sister has been trying for years to get pregnant with no success, even after the gauntlet of fertility treatments. Now she wants... Read More
Poetry by Morgan Driscoll
Stimulated Economy High above and in between the tropics on the darker continents ignored or mostly ignored in the places where the latte’s poured,... Read More
Godless Citizens in a Godly Republic: Atheists in American Public Life
BY R. LAURENCE MOORE AND ISAAC KRAMNICK W. W. NORTON & COMPANY, 2018 256 PP.; $26.95 The narrative of history has not been a... Read More
Seven Types of Atheism
BY JOHN GRAY FARRAR, STRAUS AND GIROUX, 2018 176 PP.; $25.00 The philosopher Ludwig Wittgenstein contended that religion has no single essence and that... Read More