DR. FRIEDER OTTO WOLF is the president of Humanistischer Verband Deutschlands (HVD), the national association of German humanists. He is also honorary professor in philosophy at the Free University of Berlin and the founding president... Read More

Standing up for what’s right, especially when doing so involves speaking out against the status quo, is never easy. But it’s particularly difficult for high school students, who often face tremendous peer pressure to fit... Read More

IT'S THE MOST BEAUTIFUL day of the year. Officially. I’ve just come from my monthly gig at the Channel 8 studios, where Shaun the meteorologist has proclaimed it sunny, seventy degrees, and calm in the... Read More

Dr. Sally M. Benson is a professor of geosciences and director of the Global Climate and Energy Project at Stanford University. She coauthored a 2005 IPCC special report on carbon sequestration. Her current research interests... Read More

JUST BEFORE TWELVE THIRTY on a recent spring afternoon, I found myself on the campus of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, in the building that houses both the linguistics and philosophy departments. A group of... Read More

This speech, originally delivered to the graduating class of Southampton College on June 7, 1981, is excerpted from If This Isn’t Nice, What Is? The Graduation Speeches and Other Words to Live By, (Much) Expanded... Read More

On Sunday, April 3, 2016, the fourth annual Dr. Irving & Annabel Wolfson Lecture was held at the UU Church of Worcester in Worcester, Massachusetts. Funded by a gift from the estate of Irving Wolfson,... Read More