Hiroshima and Nagasaki—Sixty-Five Years Later

On Friday, May 27, 2016, President Obama will become the first U.S. President to visit Hiroshima, Japan, site of the 1945 atomic bombing that remains controversial to this day. While President Obama has indicated he... Read More
Musings of a Solo-ist Astrophysicist

The following is adapted from Neil deGrasse Tyson’s June 5, 2009, speech in acceptance of the American Humanist Association’s Isaac Asimov Science Award, presented to him at its annual conference in Tempe, Arizona. When I... Read More
Humanism and the Second Wave of Feminism

A four-point plan to carry humanism and feminism into the next century Editor’s note: This article first ran in the May/June 1987 issue of The Humanist. I was first called a humanist back in 1973... Read More