Everyone’s heard the old saw: “Don’t close the stable door after the horse has bolted.” Sadly, it provides an excellent introduction to the shocking state of sex education in US public schools, and the wide... Read More

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