The world urgently needs more liberty and justice, and therefore more humanism. The ethical system of humanism prioritizes these ideals at a higher level than any belief system that precedes it, since it values the... Read More

The following is adapted from Bill Nye’s speech in acceptance of the 2010 Humanist of the Year Award, presented at the 69th Annual Conference of the American Humanist Association in San Jose, California. First of... Read More

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

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

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