Respecting Religion, Rejecting Discrimination Does SCOTUS decision manage to have its cake and eat it too?

by Isabelle Oldfield

In a 7-2 ruling issued June 4, 2018, the US Supreme Court found in favor of Jack Phillips, the owner of Masterpiece Cakeshop, Ltd.,... Read More

Golden’s Rule/Godwin’s Law

by Morgan Driscoll

GOLDEN’S RULE Godwin’s Law* IT SEEMS THAT, Our thoughts aren’t quite the same,      my brother. OUR  SOURCES ARE DIFFERENT SO You may be... Read More

Why “Five Fierce Humanists”? A Comment on White Supremacy and the “Movement”

by Sikivu Hutchinson

Several months ago, after seeing issue after issue of the Humanist magazine with white folks on the cover, I approached editor Jennifer Bardi with... Read More

Beethoven and His Ninth Symphony

by Daniel Thomas Moran

Ludwig van Beethoven began his life at an enormous disadvantage, being born some fourteen years after Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. In that year of 1770,... Read More

Threads of Humanist History

by Michael Werner

History sometimes creeps quietly into the present, as little-known events in the past can have a huge influence today. Despite our small numbers, humanists... Read More

A New Day

by Phillip Smith

On Thursday, March 29, 2018, Federal District Court Judge Terrence W. Boyle forced the state of North Carolina to recognize humanism as a religion... Read More

Leonardo da Vinci

by Howard Schneider

BY WALTER ISAACSON SIMON & SCHUSTER, 2017 624 PP.; $35.00 “Leonardo was a genius,” Walter Isaacson says near the end of Leonardo da Vinci.... Read More