ALLOW ME to describe a familiar course of events. Somewhere in the world, extremists carry out a terrorist attack in the name of Islam. In the days and weeks following, a series of opinion pieces... Read More

DURING A DECIDEDLY staid Presbyterian wedding ceremony some years back, I passed the time reading the Gospel of Matthew from the Bible sitting before me in the pew. And I was struck by something I’d... Read More

WHAT IS HUMANISM? Some say it’s a godless worldview, a philosophy free of supernaturalism. But humanism is both more and less than that. More, because it is about affirming what we do believe, not just... Read More

"If boomers had marched for peace or civil rights (and bear in mind that many didn’t), those days of saving the world were over—now they would save themselves."   THE POST-1980 STRATEGY of opposing the... Read More

“In a spirit of compassion for all, this manifesto proclaims that every competent adult has the incontestable right to humankind’s ultimate civil and personal liberty—the right to die in a manner and at a time... Read More

Congressman Barney Frank represented Massachusetts’ 4th district in the U.S. House of Representatives for thirty-six consecutive years (1981-2013) and chaired the House Financial Services Committee from 2007-2011. Known as a fierce defender of civil rights... Read More

Natalie Angier is a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and a bestselling author of four books. She graduated from Barnard College with honors in both English and science (physics and astronomy). Angier first worked as a reporter... Read More