Superstitions We Just Can’t Shake

When you believe in things That you don't understand, Then you suffer, Superstition ain’t the way —Stevie Wonder, “Superstition” Hey, it’s Friday the 13th, which, according to Western superstition, is unlucky. Whenever the thirteenth day... Read More
What Would a Humanist Do? Defusing Wedding Drama

Today we introduce a new TheHumanist.com column, “What Would a Humanist Do?” Fans of Joan Reisman-Brill’s “Humanist Dilemma,” fear not: this isn’t a replacement of our popular long-running advice column but a new format that... Read More
Agency Rules Are Meant to Be Commented On

Manipulating its executive powers of rule making and rule enforcement, the Trump administration is carving away our rights on issues from healthcare to immigration. From the new domestic gag rule (that caused Planned Parenthood to... Read More
HUMANIST DILEMMA | Who Needs a Wall When We Have Epistemic Closure?

Realm of Rigid Bubbles: I happen to travel in various circles of people. Within each circle, most people seem to agree on many basic views, about which they seem absolutely confident. But from one circle... Read More
On a Kentucky Train Track, a Union Protest without the Union

Last month, on July 1, coal mining industry titan Blackjewel collapsed into bankruptcy. On July 29, about twenty miners who had been previously employed by Blackjewel took up residence on the train tracks in Cumberland,... Read More
From Brexit to El Paso: The Geopolitics of White Hate

On the bustling streets of Kensington in London last week, one of the Black women I asked to comment on the recent election of Boris Johnson (who has been branded as Donald Trump’s British mini-me)... Read More
Boris Johnson: No Healer of Nations

In the new trend of undemocratically electing heads of state, the United States and the United Kingdom seem to be on the vanguard of how far comparable governments can go. It would be a lie... Read More