Daniel Thomas Moran
Daniel Thomas Moran is the Humanist’s arts editor. He is also a humanist celebrant, the author of eleven collections of poems (the most recent, In the Kingdom of Autumn, was published in 2020), and a retired clinical assistant professor from Boston University’s School of Dental Medicine.
Posts by Daniel Thomas Moran
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BY COLUM MCCANN RANDOM HOUSE, 2020 As was ably displayed in his previous novels and stories, Colum McCann is a writer of true literary... Read More
HUMANISM & THE ARTS | The American Sound of Hope: George Gershwin’s Rhapsody in Blue
In all likelihood, George Gershwin had simply forgotten. By 1924, at the age of twenty-six, he was a busy man. He had already established... Read More
FIRST PERSON | The Priest Who Made Me an Atheist
I’ve been an atheist for more than forty years, but I didn’t arrive at that position by taking the light and easy path. I... Read More
HUMANISM & THE ARTS | The Terribly Prescient Genius of Sam Shepard’s True West
“Life imitates art far more than art imitates life,” Oscar Wilde professed. What I’m sure of is that artists often see something in life... Read More
Celebrating 200 Years of Walt Whitman
“And I say to any man or woman, Let your soul stand cool and composed before a million universes. And I say to mankind,... Read More
Godless Citizens in a Godly Republic: Atheists in American Public Life
BY R. LAURENCE MOORE AND ISAAC KRAMNICK W. W. NORTON & COMPANY, 2018 256 PP.; $26.95 The narrative of history has not been a... Read More
Beethoven and His Ninth Symphony
Ludwig van Beethoven began his life at an enormous disadvantage, being born some fourteen years after Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. In that year of 1770,... Read More