OVER THE YEARS my wife and I have been very fortunate to have visited many of the great cities of Europe. One of the... Read More

WE FIND OURSELVES amidst a revolution in neuroscience—the new neuroscience, if you will. In the United States the most visible face of this new... Read More

2016 was the hottest year on record, 2015 and 2014 come in second and third, respectively, and 2017 seems like it’ll fall right in... Read More

Over the last weekend of January, Donald Trump screened his very first movie at the White House Family Theater: Finding Dory. He sat in... Read More

IF WE LEARNED nothing else from the 2016 election cycle, we certainly learned this: the religious right is morally bankrupt—utterly and profoundly so. You... Read More

WHAT CAN WE DO? In the face of the Donald Trump regime, the collaboration and capitulation of the Republican-majority Congress, the threats to the... Read More

BEHAVIORISM is psychology’s variant on physicalism, the idea that physical events explain all mental or physiological events. It’s the view that all your private... Read More

HUMANISM HAS FAILED. This election has shown how our values were repudiated by many Americans in national, state, and local elections. There is still... Read More

Constantine’s victory in the Battle at the Milvian Bridge (shown here in part of an unfinished painting by Le Brun) gave him total control... Read More

LET’S BE HONEST, thus far the Trump era has been a nightmare for humanist values. Tolerance? Not a lot. Truth? Apparently that one’s subjective.... Read More