What a mess. Recycled tires, decrepit playgrounds, scraped knees, footnote 3. The Supreme Court of the United States’ decision in Trinity Lutheran Church of Columbia v. Comer was a lot of things, but explicit was... Read More

There’s something for everyone in the image of Vladimir Putin and his “new Russia.” Housewives find a man with a deep, unresentful love for his country. Racists find a political leader outspokenly concerned about the... Read More

In February 2015 I wrote an op-ed for the Humanist titled “Religious Nationalism: A Weapon of Mass Destruction" in which I said that the conflicts ravaging the Middle East could get much worse if certain parties refused... Read More

The moving spirits of fascism have always been, first, a tyrannical love for one's country and, second, a sadistic hatred of leftists, immigrants, and outsiders. Hundreds of books, thousands of articles, and millions of words... Read More

As I reflect on the 76th Annual Conference of the American Humanist Association, held June 8-11 in Charleston, South Carolina, I keep returning to a conversation I had with Conor Robinson, projects director with the... Read More

Previous exercises in this series can be found here. Readers may still contribute their responses. Exercise #3. What You See Is What You Are For me, images can be as powerful as words, sometimes even... Read More

Last week I attended the Secular Coalition for America’s Lobby Day and Secular Values Summit on Capitol Hill. This event is a great opportunity for humanists, atheists, agnostics, and nontheists to come to Congress and... Read More