The Worst Kind of Brotherhood Fraternity’s chant shocks, but fits its history
By now, we’ve all heard of the University of Oklahoma chapter of the Sigma Alpha Epsilon (SAE) fraternity, infamous for a leaked video in which fraternity brothers can be heard chanting, “There will never be... Read More
Women’s History Month: History Yet to Be Made on Equal Rights Amendment
(Research for this article was provided by Karen Ide) As March is Women's History Month in the United States, it’s a fitting time to examine some history that many mistakenly believe has already been "made."... Read More
I Was a Conscientious Objector: Humanists Recognize 50th Anniversary of U.S. v. Seeger
Many of us humanists deeply question the morality of war. We do so because of the high value we perceive in each human life and because of the vast and needless suffering, death, and destruction... Read More
Early Education: It’s Never Too Soon to Become a Humanist Philanthropist
To look at them, you'd think the Moutons were a typical family from the Chicago suburbs—a couple with two young kids and a minivan. But this is a family with the mission to promote humanism... Read More
Struggling with Mein Kampf
A controversy has arisen surrounding the German republication of Mein Kampf, Adolf Hitler’s infamous memoir/Nazi manifesto. Although copies of this historical literary work (in English My Struggle) aren’t totally impossible to find in Germany and... Read More
On Perverts and Terrorists: The Semantics of ISIS
A rose by any other name would smell as sweet. But is ISIS, ISIL, IS, SIC, or Da’ish as Islamic? At the February 18 White House Summit on Countering Violent Extremism, President Barack Obama cut... Read More
I.U.D. (Informed Unbelieving Daughters): Why Young Women Might Be Leaving Religion
Many humanists are already aware of the growing percentage of the US population that identifies as nonreligious. According to a study by the Pew Research Center, about 20 percent of people identify with no religion,... Read More