Jessica Valenti, 2014 Humanist Heroine Jessica Valenti is the founder of the influential feminist website, Feministing, and the author of four books on feminism, politics, and culture: Full Frontal Feminism (2007); He’s a Stud, She’s... Read More

A SKILLED, dedicated criminal defense attorney sits alone with his client in a dreary jailhouse holding cell. The defendant is charged with a serious felony and, unfortunately for her, the prosecution’s evidence of guilt in... 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

AS THESE WORDS are written, Oregon and Washington State are burning, much of California and Texas are withering without water, Boulder, Colorado, was recently flooded (where I once lived was partly under water), and not... Read More

IF YOU DON'T keep up on your fearmongering Christian commentary, you may have missed this item from the online WorldNetDaily: Secret experiments now underway in the U.S. and elsewhere are sparking fears of a potential... Read More

MY FRIEND MARY and I tread lightly upon the early spring awakenings at the Greensprings Natural Cemetery in Newfield, New York. Jennifer Johnson, our guide and the burial coordinator at Greensprings, has no such qualms.... Read More

MARK TWAIN, the revered American humorist and writer, was a famous skeptic and critic of organized religion. He wrote that “Faith is believing what you know ain’t so,” and that the Bible contains “upwards of... Read More