I AM WRITING from a place of privilege, both literally and figuratively. My pandemic shelter-in-place is a four-story brownstone townhouse in Brooklyn, New York, where, from my workplace at my bedroom desk, I can look... Read More

WHILE A NOBEL PRIZE-winning intellectual favored by many academics, the North African Albert Camus also wrote of existential circumstances of war and want that tapped into life conditions experienced by and of concern to a... Read More

THE LAST DISEASE OUTBREAK of pandemic proportions to visit humanity was the Spanish flu in 1918, which killed fifty million people. Prior to that, the bubonic plague (a.k.a. the Black Death)—which, like today’s novel coronavirus,... Read More

IN THE MIDST of a global health crisis, one might ask: What could health and wellness have to do with living moral lives? That idea might sound counterintuitive; stern morality suggests the opposite of flexible... Read More

As the American Humanist Association has switched to near-total telework (big shout-out to staff who have been handling mail!), AHA staffers have been checking in with each other in various ways. Here we share stories... Read More

BOOK READERS must seem all the same to non-book readers. Just another hobby group, like soccer fans or bridge players. I experienced this prejudice firsthand a few years ago. A friend of mine and his... Read More

IN JANUARY Vintage Books published How to Live a Good Life: A Guide to Choosing Your Own Personal Philosophy, edited by Massimo Pigliucci, Skye C. Cleary, and Daniel A. Kaufman. In the vein of Socrates... Read More