Write up a list of evil things in this world, from one to however many evils you can think of (off the top of my head I was able to come up with at least... Read More

What a mess. Recycled tires, decrepit playgrounds, scraped knees, footnote 3. The Supreme Court of the United States’ decision in Trinity Lutheran Church of Columbia v. Comer was a lot of things, but explicit was... Read More

In February 2015 I wrote an op-ed for the Humanist titled “Religious Nationalism: A Weapon of Mass Destruction" in which I said that the conflicts ravaging the Middle East could get much worse if certain parties refused... Read More

“Your island has been there for hundreds of years, and I believe your island will be there for hundreds more,” President Trump recently told the mayor of Virginia’s Tangier Island in response to reports that... Read More

I don’t know if it’s true that Mark Twain wrote, “Give a man a reputation as an early riser and he can sleep til’ noon,” but I know it’s a true sentiment regardless. The reputation of... Read More

While some form of nontheism is a necessary condition of humanism, it isn’t sufficient. And for a long time Bill Gates’s putative nontheistic personal philosophy hasn’t seemed sufficient in the light of a number of... Read More

Scientists, freethinkers, and medical professionals have been warning about the dangers of anti-vaccination rhetoric and culture ever since vaccines became commonplace nearly two hundred years ago. A marvel of modern science and medicine, vaccines shield... Read More