Michael Werner
Posts by Michael Werner (page 3)
Remaking Ourselves
HUMANISM HAS FAILED. This election has shown how our values were repudiated by many Americans in national, state, and local elections. There is still... Read More
Get Savvy for My Grandmother
With the new presidential administration and a Republican majority in Congress, I think we can all expect a reinvigorated attack on abortion access, so... Read More
True or False: Jeff Sessions Can’t Handle the Truth about the Constitution
I feel like we’ve been thrown back into the 1950s. Despite his efforts to appear moderate in confirmation hearings this week, the nominee for... Read More
Hope
A YOUNG WOMAN in a self-management and recovery training (SMART) meeting I coordinate asked me how anything could go right for her when she... Read More
Who Comes First, People or the Planet?
HUMANISM HAS BEEN labeled by some as anthropocentric and given to speciesism, the belief that human beings are set apart and should be valued... Read More
Believe Racial Justice is Possible
JUST ABOUT EVERYONE working on antiracism today is frustrated. The country as a whole—black, white, liberal, and conservative—has descended a staircase of despair, apathetic... Read More
Humanism’s Passionate Love Affair with Life
For all the talk about reason and science, humanism is really about a passionate love affair. It is a love affair with life, not... Read More