A Redaction of Heroism
OVER THE last few years the use of drones—unmanned aerial vehicles—has generated much debate and concern in the media and among the public. How concerned should we all be? According to data from the International... Read More
Kurt Vonnegut Survives Humanity
IN HIS EIGHTY-FIVE spins around the sun, Kurt Vonnegut managed to make people smile about the darkest aspects of the human condition. One of his most famous novels, the 1963 campus classic, Cat’s Cradle, deals... Read More
A Humanist in Action Pennsylvania House Rep. Brian Sims
IF YOU aren’t familiar with Brian Sims, a Democratic member of the Pennsylvania House of Representatives, he’s a history maker. The first and so far only NCAA football captain to come out of the closet... Read More
Can Fracking Lead the Way To Clean Energy? A Promising Geothermal Technology Just Might Do the Trick
THERE'S A PROVERB often attributed to Euripides that warns: “Whom the gods would destroy, they first make mad.” Ellen Harrison knows what the ancients were on about. In 2008, in a moment of what she... Read More
The Religious Disneyfication of the Harlem Renaissance
To be African American in the 1920s was hard enough, to be a female author in the publishing industry somewhat more daunting, and to be one who held that religion perpetuated rather than combated the... Read More
A Short History of Evolution: Introduction
This article is part of Carl Coon’s ongoing “A Short History of Evolution” series. Click here to read Part 2. Are there answers to the eternal questions of what we are and how we came... Read More
Southern Atheist, Part 1 They pressured his kids at school. They threatened him at home. Then things got really ugly.
Editor’s Note: The names and locations have been altered to protect the identity of the author. This article is the first installment of the Southern Atheist series. Click to read part 2 & part 3.... Read More