March is Women’s History Month in the United States, the UK, and Australia. As luck would have it, there are five Wednesdays in March,... Read More

Why we have teenagers, immigrants, convicts, minorities, and the unemployed to thank for our freedom "The March to Valley Forge" (painting by William Trego,... Read More

Last week a Jewish cemetery in St. Louis, Missouri, was vandalized by unknown radicals, and this week a Jewish cemetery was desecrated in Philadelphia.... Read More

The American Humanist Association is thrilled to announce that television personality, skeptic, and secular advocate Adam Savage will receive the 2017 Humanist of the... Read More

Last Wednesday the Trump administration overturned Obama’s transgender student protection directive, which ordered schools to let transgender students use whatever bathrooms and locker rooms... Read More

Both left- and right-wing intellectuals agree that metaphysical convictions (our ideas about the fundamentals of reality) have social and political implications. The former's reasons for... Read More

This week NASA released news of an astounding discovery—a solar system that may harbor the right conditions for life as we know it. The... Read More

People who are attracted to humanism tend to have a strong interest in social and political activism. As it says in Humanist Manifesto III,... Read More

Experiencing an ethical dilemma? Need advice from a humanist perspective? Send your questions to The Humanist Dilemma at dilemma@thehumanist.com (subject line: Humanist Dilemma). All... Read More

Kayla Martel, age ten, wanted to play basketball, just as she’d been doing the past four years for her St. John’s school team in... Read More