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
Are You Missing that Creationist Barcode? Me Too!
Most all designs and objects, tools and physical items that are made are tagged with a serial number or barcode to show their origin... Read More
A Humanist Exploration of Suffering
I’m a humanist because, to me, the philosophy of humanism has always been about positivity of the self, of others, and of the cosmos.... Read More
My Meditation on Abby Hafer
This is perhaps one of the hardest essays that I’ve ever written for The Humanist. Not because words fail me, but because each time... Read More
Building a Better Corporate Religion
The Catholic Church is a storied religious organization two-thousand years in the making. It is also a multinational corporation worth an estimated 15 billion... Read More
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