Another poll on trans rights has hit the national political dialog. The fallout has been predictable: talking heads and reporters circulating the write-up with an air of condescending concern: this is what we’ve been trying... Read More

What’s the chance you’ve ever read a column about agnosticism, humanism or, God forbid, atheism amid the endless weekly clergy musings about faith in your local, small-town newspaper? Slim to none, I’d wager. After all,... Read More

This is not written as a request. It is written as an acknowledgement. Sometimes what stays with us is not a performance, but a moment of clarity — a shared human condition named plainly, without... Read More

For all intents and purposes, the United States government is in a state of conflict with the government of Venezuela. This comes days after the autocratic Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro and his wife were apprehended by special... Read More

In the late 17th century, Isaac Newton published his “Mathematical Principles of Natural Philosophy,” laying out three laws of motion that forever changed the way we understand the physical world. In classical physics — the... Read More

“The child is father of the man.” In adulthood, you begin to discover society for what it really is: an endless exchange of masks. That’s the core irony of human existence; being one thing and... Read More

The quest for truth and meaning has propelled my journey, my improbable journey from religion to ethical humanism. I am a first-generation humanist. My parents were born into a traditional religious setting, but later embraced... Read More