Our Pragmatist Tradition
A college student recently asked me, “How do you humanists know what’s true?” It’s an honest question, not given to simple answers. While individual... Read More
Rain Mosaic & Impressions of a Garden Hose
Why Justices Kagan and Breyer Didn’t Go Far Enough
In a recent and highly publicized ruling, the U.S. Supreme Court reaffirmed that sectarian prayer may continue to play a ceremonial role in government-sponsored... Read More
Robo-Morality: Can philosophers program ethical codes into robots?
The science fiction canon is filled with stories of robots rising up and destroying their human masters. From its beginnings in Frankenstein up through... Read More
Think you’re not going anywhere when you die?
THINK YOU'RE not going anywhere when you die? Of course, we all eventually “return” to the earth in one form or another after the... Read More
On the Hill: U.S. Commission Releases Annual Report on the State of Religious Freedom
Last week I attended an event on the release of the U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom’s (USCIRF) annual report, entitled “15th Anniversary Retrospective:... Read More
Nonbelievers Denounce Supreme Court Decision Allowing Special Religious Privileges for Hobby Lobby
The American Humanist Association strongly criticized today’s U.S. Supreme Court ruling on Burwell v. Hobby Lobby and Conestoga Wood Specialties v. Burwell, which granted... Read More
It’s All in the Fine Print
The Ethical Dilemma: Love My Religious Family, Hate the Religion
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
Humanist Voices in Verse: The Burden of Immortality
This week’s poem is by Steven Zimmerman. He was born in Fort Wayne, Indiana, in 1942, graduated from college in 1963, and served in... Read More