Colobus Conundrum
No matter how deep I am in the forest, the sounds of humanity seep through, reminding me that the Abuko Nature Reserve in The... Read More
Done In by the Patriot Act The Grand Irony of the Petraeus Sex Scandal
There’s a delicious irony to the story of the crash-and-burn career of four-star general and former Central Intelligence Agency Director David Petraeus. The man... Read More
Little Room
So much you can learn from such a small space. Imagine Emily. Kant, too. it leads one to believe that to know one life... Read More
Beyond the Box
The day after Hurricane Sandy flooded the lowlands of New York City, a flurry of media inquiries flooded the Occupy Wall Street PR team’s... Read More
Embroidering History: An Englishwoman’s Experience as a Humanitarian Aid Volunteer in Post-War Poland, 1924-1925
Jane Cooper’s book, Embroidering History, opens wide a window into the workings of an early humanitarian aid project in a complex emergency, namely the... Read More
Attack of the Theocrats! How the Religious Right Harms Us All—And What We Can Do About It
A friend recently passed on a slick magazine to me published by a religious right group. The cover depicted a close-up shot of a... Read More
Damned Good Company: Twenty Rebels Who Bucked the God Experts
I came to the humanist movement in the 1970s, not as a refugee or rebel against the abusive teachings of organized religion but as... Read More
Humanism in a Shitstorm
“There are no atheists in foxholes.” I’m sure you’ve heard this more times than you care to remember. I’m sure you’ve heard religious believers... Read More
Election Reflection: Whither Now, Religious Right?
Pundits spent a lot of time chewing over the results of the November election, but most seemed to agree on one thing: the religious... Read More
EDITOR’S NOTE
“One of the perennial questions for the human species,” writes long-time humanist leader Michael Werner, “is: How shall we live?” Recognizing that humanism is... Read More