Few modern slogans in popular atheism have the enduring appeal of Hitchens’ Razor: What can be asserted without evidence can also be dismissed without evidence. It is elegant and sharp. And it is an effective... Read More

Tuesday, March 31 was the International Transgender Day of Visibility. This year's day of visibility came at a bellwether moment as efforts intensified to suppress queer visibility, recognition and memory. Let's not beat around the... Read More

Secular humanism has been remarkably effective at dismantling religious metaphysics. It has been far less willing to ask what it owes the people who must live without them. For many secular humanists, this omission feels... Read More

This essay first appeared on the author’s personal blog, Sharwari’s notebook. I became an atheist for moral reasons. I could not reconcile a loving, omnipotent God with the suffering I saw in the world. If... Read More

Like in the movie “A Clockwork Orange,” it feels like we've been strapped to a chair with spreaders on our eyes, forced to watch a looping video of the dream of democracy being murdered in... Read More

A prime is a number whose only divisors are 1 and itself. The complete history of even primes is very short: the number 2. An argument can be made that the even prime is all... Read More

There is peace in waking up and knowing exactly what you’re supposed to do with your day. How you’re supposed to parent. What things in life should be prioritized. I was given that on a... Read More