Clay Farris Naff: No one has yet produced a testable and accepted theory of consciousness. Yet, you and others seem confident that a working copy of the contents of a human brain could, in principle,... Read More

2011 Humanist of the Year Rebecca Newberger Goldstein’s latest book, Plato at the Googleplex, is audacious in conception, intellectually stimulating, and an altogether fascinating read. In it, Goldstein ushers the ancient philosopher into the twenty-first... Read More

Jason Eden is a contributor to TheHumanist.com and the author of a book about his journey from Christian minister to atheist. Given the recent Pew survey that revealed atheists are the "most unwanted future relative"... Read More

As a restless teenager, the Swedish-born physicist Max Tegmark wrote code for a shareware game that made him enough pocket change to travel the world. As a brash young theorist he made the cover of... Read More

As a restless teenager, the Swedish-born physicist Max Tegmark wrote code for a shareware game that made him enough pocket change to travel the world. As a brash young theorist he made the cover of... Read More

National Day of Reason, recognized on the first Thursday of May each year to counter the Congressionally-mandated National Day of Prayer, is a project of the American Humanist Association and founded by the Washington Area... Read More

Click here to read part one of this interview series. Below is Part 2 of “An Atheist in Kuwait.” TheHumanist.com speaks with Ben Baz Aziz, an Egyptian living in Kuwait who was arrested and deported... Read More