Secular Suffragists

Religion has long played a powerful role in the subjugation of women. As humanists who champion human agency, including the freedom of and from religion, we have chosen to highlight several suffragists who vocally challenged the... Read More
What a Tiny Virus Can Teach Us Deep Truths Unearthed by a Pandemic

"WE'RE ALL IN THIS TOGETHER." If a pandemic can be said to have a slogan, this was surely it. Please, don’t take my word for it. Let’s ask Google. As a search term, “together” drifted... Read More
Beyond the Battlefield Moral Injuries and the Pandemic

Research in America is parsing the depths of psychological trauma, revealing invisible injuries beyond the traditional diagnosis of PTSD. This has important applications for healthcare workers caught up in the COVID-19 pandemic. Amid myriad tragic... Read More
On COVID-19 and Pandemics: A Secular Stoic Perspective

THE PANDEMIC experts long anticipated has now arrived, and it has quickly become a new reality for all of us. Welcome to the age of COVID-19. Predictably, you have already been exposed to a barrage... Read More
An Ethical Culture Perspective on COVID-19

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
Humanism’s Vulnerable Human

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
An Epicurean Guide to Living More Pleasantly in Times of Coronavirus

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