CNN and Trump: A Noxious Marriage
Not content to let the nation celebrate the Thanksgiving holiday weekend in peace, CNN and the president were back at it, twisted together in... Read More
Tearing Down the Toxic Male Fraternity If you aren’t an active part of the solution, you are unquestionably a part of the problem.
In the summer of 2016, award-winning actor Will Smith made an appearance on The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon to promote what was then... Read More
Humanist Goals Confessions of a Major League Soccer Ultra
I USED TO SCOFF when I heard sports commentators glorify a team’s supporters by saying things like, “Football is a religion for [team name... Read More
Can American Democracy Survive Trump’s Reign of Lies?
My mother was a fan of Simon and Garfunkel, and I grew up hearing a lot of their music. I came to appreciate the... Read More
Human Value and the Puritan Work Ethic
What makes a human life valuable? That’s a huge question, obviously, and not one that’s going to be settled in a magazine column. I... Read More
The Personal Geography of Deconversion
Until I was nine, the church we attended was forty-five minutes away; we went twice every Sunday, so altogether that was three hours spent... Read More
I Can’t Breathe: A Killing on Bay Street
BOOK BY MATT TAIBBI SPIEGEL & GRAU (2017) 336 PP.; $28.00 (HARDCOVER) $14.99 (KINDLE) With the title, I Can’t Breathe: A Killing on Bay... Read More
An Atheist Stranger in a Strange Religious Land: Selected Writings from the Bible Belt
BOOK BY HERB SILVERMAN PITCHSTONE PUBLISHING, 2017 264PP.; $15.95 Humanists know Herb Silverman well. He is a past board member of the American Humanist... Read More
Goodness Trumped Racism in Alabama. Goodness Trumped Homophobia and Theocracy. And Yes, It Trumped Sexism and Sexual Predation.
Well, I’ll be damned. Alabama elected Democrat Doug Jones to the US Senate and sent the awful Roy Moore and his pistol packing. So... Read More
Humanist EDge: Always More to Learn and Do
From an editorial internship with the Humanist magazine to becoming the development & communications director and senior editor of TheHumanism.com, I worked for the... Read More