Why Genocide?
Over the past fifteen years United Nations tribunals have addressed genocide issues associated with conflicts in Bosnia, Rwanda, and Darfur. The most recent development... Read More
Inexorably toward Trial: Reflections on the Dover Case and the “Least Dangerous Branch”
Judge John E. Jones III of the U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Pennsylvania is one of the foremost defenders of evolution... Read More
The Evolution of the Mind and What It Means to Humanism
Charles Darwin’s On the Origin of Species appeared in 1859 and revolutionized how the science and religion enterprises viewed human nature. Scientists proceeded to... Read More
THE ISSUE AT HAND
The new year brings special cause for celebration, as 2009 marks the 200th anniversary of Charles Darwin’s birth and the 150th anniversary of the... Read More
In Pursuit of the God Particle
The large hadron collider, the atom smasher sitting beneath Geneva, Switzerland, is the largest and most expensive scientific instrument ever built. On September 10,... Read More
Day of the Undead: Religious Right Alive and Kicking in America
I spent two days in mid-September attending the “Values Voter Summit,” an annual event sponsored by the Family Research Council, Focus on the Family,... Read More
The Universal Declaration of Human Rights: Still Ahead of Its Time?
Threescore years ago, on December 10, 1948, fifty-three nations on the earth, scarred by a terrible war, brought forth something new in human history,... Read More
What Would Jesus Do…If He Were a Lawyer?
Published in the Humanist, November/December 2008 Bruce Green was excited and daunted by the task that lay before him. It was August 2003, and... Read More
One Nation Under the Constitution: Reason, Politics, and Morality in the New Century
Maryland State Senator Jamie Raskin, an attorney and professor of constitutional law who has earned national recognition as a civil rights and civil liberties... Read More
The Accidental Atheist: From Hippie to Humanist in Half a Century
I was born eight months after my parents were married in 1931 and from there my life has been one accident after another. My... Read More
