View all episodes in the Cartoon History of Humanism series. Voltaire: One Poet against Christendom Part I: The Brilliant, Awful Years If religion is... Read More

It’s like whack-a-mole. One area of tolerance gets better, but another gets worse. In the past few years, tolerance of LGBTQs’ place in society... Read More

The 29th session of the United Nations’ Human Rights Council, an intergovernmental body made up of forty-seven states working to protect human rights around... Read More

June 17 marks the 52nd anniversary of the landmark Supreme Court case, Abington School District v. Schempp, that declared unconstitutional a state law requiring... Read More

Click to download an audio file of this podcast. In this episode, Bo Bennett speaks with neurologist Dr. Robert Burton about what it means... Read More

Humanists have a long history of opposing the death penalty—the American Humanist Association issued three official board resolutions opposing capital punishment in 1961, 1976,... Read More

Can we forgive evangelicals? That’s the question posed on the blog The Bilerico Project by Warren J. Blumenfeld, a professor at the University of... Read More

June 14 marked the finale of the fifth season of the popular television show, Game of Thrones. This season has been particularly controversial in... Read More

No, I’m not going to start waxing un-poetically about roses. I am, however, hoping to continue the conversation being had in many online and... Read More

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