To Enhance Justice: The Risk and Reward of Studying Memory
Elizabeth F. Loftus is one of the nation’s leading experts on memory, eyewitness testimony, and courtroom procedure. She has been an expert witness or... Read More
Inspiration, Sci-Fi, and the Importance of Driving Your Own Bus
Actor John de Lancie is a a graduate of the Julliard School who has appeared in numerous films and television shows. He’s perhaps best... Read More
The Case for Re-Enfranchisement
I was registering voters not too long before the California primary in June when two men came in. One registered, and the other thanked... Read More
Blasphemy Laws Attack Free Expression— Can Freethought Hit Back?
He dared to question God’s existence. His tweets did not go unnoticed. Now, an unidentified twenty-eight-year-old Saudi man faces $5,330 in fines, ten years... Read More
It Makes You Proud to be a Humanist
When you consider the names on the list of recipients of the Humanist of the Year award, and the contributions that these individuals have... Read More
No Moore: Alabama Is Finally Rid of the Worst Judge in America
ROY S. MOORE, chief justice of the Alabama Supreme Court, has lost his job—again. This is cause for celebration. It means that we may... Read More
Niki Massey, and Why Some Humanist Voices Don’t Get Heard
NIKI MASSEY DIED on October 1, 2016, at the age of thirty-five. Chances are good you don’t know who Niki Massey was, that you... Read More
Hope
A YOUNG WOMAN in a self-management and recovery training (SMART) meeting I coordinate asked me how anything could go right for her when she... Read More
A Thanksgiving Prayer
We are grateful to be In a universe in which stars Are born and over time will die Giving forth the elements of everything.... Read More
The Gene: An Intimate History
BOOK BY SIDDARTHA MUKHERJEE SCRIBNER, 2016 608PP.; $38.00 At first glance, The Gene: An Intimate History may not be the best book for light... Read More
