The Ethical Dilemma: Southern Discomfort
Experiencing an ethical dilemma? Need advice from a humanist perspective? Send your questions to The Ethical Dilemma at dilemma@thehumanist.com (subject line: Ethical Dilemma). All... Read More
The Unreasonableness of Racism: A Humanist Response to Tamir Rice’s Death
As I follow the media stories surrounding the tragic death of Tamir Rice, a twelve-year-old boy who was shot and killed while he was... Read More
The Cartoon History of Humanism, Episode 29 Keeping it Real: The Pragmatic Religious Skepticism of Niccolò Machiavelli
View all episodes in the Cartoon History of Humanism series. Keeping it Real: The Pragmatic Religious Skepticism of Niccolò Machiavelli Perhaps misrepresenting Machiavelli is... Read More
Rules Are for Schmucks: Religion and Child Marriage
A New York Times op-ed piece last week shined some light into the one of the darkest corners of our society: the practice of... Read More
Gripes and Groans: Religion, Entertainment, and a Culture of Disposability
Don’t Give Me That Old Time Religion I have fortunately never encountered anyone who actually told me I was consigned to hell because I... Read More
Click Me! Black Coffee, Psychopaths, and Twin Peaks
On October 12, Jezebel ran a story with the headline: “Study Says People Who Take Coffee Black Have Psychopathic Tendencies.” Reporting on the same... Read More
The Humanist Hour #173: Chris Shelton Talks Scientology
Click to download an audio file of this podcast. In this episode, Peggy Knudtson speaks with former scientologist Chris Shelton at The Skeptics of... Read More
Abuse and Neglect Veiled as “Faith-Healing”
There is no shortage of news stories of “faith-healing” gone bad. Just last week, on October 16, six congregation members brutally beat two brothers... Read More
Tennessee Religious Indoctrination Bill Inspires Praise and Confusion
For decades, humanists, agnostics, and nontheists have fought to ensure that our public education system is secular and does not promote religious ideology to... Read More
Humanism, Doubt, and Optimism
(Please see AHA’s statement on sexual harassment allegations against Dr. Krauss here.) LAWRENCE KRAUSS has had an extensive and impressive career in theoretical physics.... Read More
