Adolf Hitler was appointed chancellor of Germany in January, Franklin Delano Roosevelt was inaugurated as president of the United States in March, Mohandas Gandhi... Read More

THE PREDICTABLE backlash is now underway. In response to the popular atheist books of Susan Jacoby, Sam Harris, Daniel Dennett, Richard Dawkins, and Christopher... Read More

RECENTLY A HUMANIST friend asked if compassion and empathy had any place in our lives, and if so, who or what were the focuses... Read More

PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH has proved to be as much of a disaster on foreign affairs as on domestic issues. More, if possible. And... Read More

THE DRAMA THE ASSASSINATION of the great Pakistani political figure Benazir Bhutto last December seemed to emerge as a tailor-made story for the American... Read More

ON THE MORNING of December 7, 2007, Christopher Campbell walked into his English Honors class at Parker High School, prepared to tear out pages... Read More

AS WE APPROACH FIVE YEARS since the liberation of Iraq, it still appears too soon to tell if it's been a success or not.... Read More

Another holiday season is soon to pass, and this year, Santa Claus will be very, very good to the religious right--even though the leaders... Read More

Among the many Muslim and ex-Muslim women currently commenting on Islam, particularly in regard to women's issues, humanists are probably most familiar with four:... Read More

Surely one of the biggest barriers keeping humanism from being a more prominent force in the United States is its nontheistic character. Two relevant... Read More