Dr. David I. Orenstein
David Orenstein, BS, MLS, MS, Ph.D., is Discipline Coordinator & Tenured Professor of Anthropology at Medgar Evers College/City University of New York. He is also a board member of both the American Humanist Association and the Broader Social Impacts Committee of the Hall of Human Origins at the Smithsonian Institute. He is a past president of the Secular Humanist Society of New York and the former AHA representative to the United Nations.
Posts by Dr. David I. Orenstein
In Reason We Trust
For many of us in the rationalist and humanist community, the focus on how we define ourselves often falls on the difference between developing... Read More
HUMANISM 101 | Abner Kneeland: The Omega Man of the Early 19th Century Freethought Movement
Imagine you are a citizen living within an irrational society that has laws which state if you blaspheme god, that you can be persecuted... Read More
The Case for a Coordinated Humanistic Global Movement Towards Peace and International Cooperation
Imagine if you will a near future where our global society offers every person regardless of faith, economic status, identity and heritage the freedom... Read More
Threading the Freethought Lives of Hitchens and Sagan
“Humans have limitations, and no one knows this better than scientists. But a multitude of aspects of the natural world that were considered miraculous only... Read More
Empowering Science to Understand our Connected Human Family
Most people who know me, know that since 1968, I have been enamored with the film, The Planet of the Apes. I saw the... Read More
Letter in a Bottle
As we close in on 2023, I look past my personal horizon and see events and circumstances in three main categories. I am either... Read More
An Ode to Charles Darwin
In his lifetime, Charles Darwin wrote and revised a total of nineteen books. Essentially, he produced a new work or significantly updated text every... Read More