The Zika virus is all over the news. Zika is surely dangerous, but it has its limitations and is likely to be well contained. However, its greater significance extends beyond any current spread. Instead, it... Read More

THE RISING TIDE OF NONRELIGIOUS people in the United States is accompanied by an intense focus on the “New Atheism,” which, rightly or wrongly, is critiqued as being not vocal enough or downright anti-progressive when... Read More

Ninety years ago, writer Carl Van Vechten published a novel intended to be a celebration of Harlem, which at the time was experiencing a budding literary, artistic, and intellectual movement that sparked a new cultural... Read More

A study released in February by the Higher Education Research Institute at the University of California, Los Angeles found that today’s incoming college students are more likely to join student-led protests than at almost any... Read More

With the release of the Panama Papers, it’s a good time to consider the idea of raw data. The more technological and scientific progress we make, the more that once-inscrutable elements of nature and society... Read More

While many nontheists define their humanism, atheism, or agnosticism by their lack of belief in gods, one might likely assume that this disbelief in deities also translates into a doubt of an afterlife. However, according... Read More

We’re still in mourning. And at the same time, we’re in disbelief. We can’t help but experience the hair-raising primal fear that floods our being, plunging us into a heightened sense of paranoia and vulnerability.... Read More