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

On Monday, June 5, I started my first day at the American Humanist Association in Washington, DC, as the summer editorial intern for the Humanist magazine. On Wednesday, June 7 I flew out to Charleston,... Read More

In last week’s Exercise #2 we asked where, as a nonbeliever, you find purpose and a sense of morality and about what moves you. The response was immense. Here we present a dozen reader responses.... Read More

While some form of nontheism is a necessary condition of humanism, it isn’t sufficient. And for a long time Bill Gates’s putative nontheistic personal philosophy hasn’t seemed sufficient in the light of a number of... Read More