Finding Compassion in Nature: A New Study on Awe and Generosity

Can you remember a time when you looked at the stars and felt so small that it made you feel like a better person? New research published by the American Psychological Association suggests that experiencing... 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 a mythical hereafter. Humanism is a love affair with a progressive... Read More
Hearts in the Kuiper Belt: NASA Concludes Ten-Year Journey to Pluto

On January 19, 2006, the New Horizons probe set sail from Earth at the record-breaking launch speed of 36,000 miles per hour. Its destination was Pluto—that previously unseen dwarf planet, sitting three billion miles away,... Read More
Tsipras and the Atheists: The Role of Secularism in Greece’s Financial Crisis

The current state of Greece is not a good one—that much is not news. The financial crisis that’s plagued the country for years seemed to come to a head on July 5, 2015, when the... Read More
So Long, and Thanks for All the Mercury-Filled Fish: SCOTUS Strikes Down EPA Regulations

If the recent victory for LGBT rights happened to trick you into believing that the US Supreme Court was shifting to a more enlightened, progressive place where compassionate and learned scholars ruled the land fairly—and... Read More
Advancing the Atheist Movement: Dawkins, Dennett, and the Second Wave

Instead of fighting the old battle of atheism versus religion, the second wave will fight a battle against religious intolerance of atheism. When I was in college, majoring in biology, my advisor gave me a... Read More
Should Humanists Oppose Life Sentences Without Parole?

Humanists have a long history of opposing the death penalty—the American Humanist Association issued three official board resolutions opposing capital punishment in 1961, 1976, and 2000 over concerns about its inability to deter crime, its... Read More