Compelling Optimism
"HOW CAN YOU STAND IT?" The young woman appeared to be on the brink of tears but there was anger in her voice too. “I mean, every day your job requires you to hear about... Read More
Book Excerpt: The Great Transition: Shifting from Fossil Fuels to Solar and Wind Energy
The Great Transition: Shifting from Fossil Fuels to Solar and Wind Energy By Lester R. Brown, Janet Larsen, J. Matthew Roney, and Emily E. Adams W. W. Norton & Company (2015) From Chapter One: Changing... Read More
AHA Holds First Congressional Awards Reception
View photos from this event at the bottom of this post. Yesterday the American Humanist Association and the Center for Freethought Equality (the AHA’s 501c4 sister organization) held our first ever congressional reception on Capitol... Read More
Eight Reasons Darwin Almost Didn’t Board the HMS Beagle
For Charles Darwin, it was an invitation from his former Cambridge mentor J.S. Henslow that would change his life. Up until that time, Darwin had been given nothing more than what his uncle Josiah Wedgwood... Read More
Humanism, Doubt, and Optimism
(Please see AHA’s statement on sexual harassment allegations against Dr. Krauss here.) LAWRENCE KRAUSS has had an extensive and impressive career in theoretical physics. He received undergraduate degrees in mathematics and physics at Carleton University... Read More
The Single Greatest, Most Important, Most Influential Invention in the History of Humankind
THE ONION is a world-renowned satirical publication started in 1988 by University of Wisconsin-Madison undergraduates Tim Keck and Christopher Johnson. After gaining popularity in college towns and then on the Internet with the launch of... Read More
The Road to and from Extreme Religious Liberty
MARCI A. HAMILTON is one of the United States’ leading church/state scholars, a senior fellow at the University of Pennsylvania’s Program in Religion and Urban Civil Society, and holds the Paul R. Verkuil Chair in... Read More
