David Niose
David Niose (@ahadave) is author of Fighting Back the Right: Reclaiming America from the Attack on Reason and former Legal Director of the American Humanist Association.
Posts by David Niose
The Beauty of Universal Benefits
Pete Buttigieg scored some points at last week’s Democratic debate by going against popular party opinion on the issue of free college tuition. It... Read More
When Non-Stories Become Stories: A Media-Manufactured Controversy
If you’ve been losing faith in the American press—in the ability of even mainstream journalists to discern the relevant from the irrelevant and to... Read More
“Narrow Rulings” Mean Little to the Christian Right
Scare tactics are an important weapon in the assault on church-state separation. This was on display in the American Humanist Association’s recent Supreme Court... Read More
Uh, No, Establishment Clause Law Is Not a “Hot Mess”
This spring the Supreme Court will rule on the American Humanist Association’s lawsuit challenging the constitutionality of a forty-foot Latin cross on public property... Read More
The Cross and American Militarism
As I read pundits commenting on the Bladensburg cross lawsuit (Maryland-National Capital Park and Planning Commission v. American Humanist Association, which will be argued... Read More
The Framers Weren’t Cross Enthusiasts
When conservatives discuss legal philosophy, they like to talk history. Under the banner of originalism—the approach to legal analysis that interprets the US Constitution... Read More
Post-Kennedy Panic
Panic is in the air. The announcement of Justice Anthony Kennedy’s retirement might have been welcomed by humanists if there was any likelihood that... Read More