Respecting Religion, Rejecting Discrimination Does SCOTUS decision manage to have its cake and eat it too?
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
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”
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
Betsy DeVos Wants You to Pay for Someone Else’s Religion
President Donald Trump’s cabinet is full of men and women who simply aren’t qualified to do the jobs they’ve been assigned. Nowhere is this... Read More
Beethoven and His Ninth Symphony
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
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
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
A Pervasive Impression of Our Depravity: William T. Vollman’s Carbon Ideologies
Those looking for hope (or even energizing desperation) about our prospects for dealing with global warming will want to avoid William T. Vollmann’s new... Read More
Leonardo da Vinci
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
I’ll Continue to Affirm that This Was a Failure of the Editor.
On May 7 a white woman at Yale called campus police on fellow graduate student Lolade Siyonbola, a black woman who had fallen asleep... Read More
