The Humanist Interview with Naomi Oreskes Applied Science and the Merchants of Doubt
Naomi Oreskes is a professor of the history of science and an affiliated professor of earth and planetary sciences at Harvard University. She is the coauthor, with Erik M. Conway, of Merchants of Doubt, a... Read More
Film Review: Merchants of Doubt
DOCUMENTARY WRITTEN BY ROBERT KENNER AND KIM ROBERTS; DIRECTED BY ROBERT KENNER SONY PICTURES CLASSICS (2014) (USA) 93 MINUTES; PG-13 An outraged man goes to see his doctor. “Doc, you tell me I have a month... Read More
Out of Place A Boulder Church’s Path toward Denominational Realignment
IN MARCH, the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.), the largest Presbyterian denomination in the country with 1.8 million members, announced it would start allowing its ministers to preside over same-sex wedding ceremonies. While it certainly marks a... Read More
Self-Management & Recovery Training A SMART Humanistic Approach to Addiction Recovery
“The best antidotes to addiction are joy and competence—joy as the capacity to take pleasure in the people, activities, and things that are available to us; competence as the ability to master relevant parts of... Read More
Terror in Paris Putting Charlie Hebdo in Context and Looking for a Way Out
ON JANUARY 7, 2015, two heavily armed men walked into the Paris offices of a satirical magazine called Charlie Hebdo (in English, Weekly Charlie) and methodically murdered twelve people, including the magazine’s editor, Stéphane Charbonnier... Read More
Beyond Gods and Monsters—Sculpting a New Norm of Loyalty
WAR, IT HAS BEEN SAID, is politics by other means; religion is politics by most means. When people go to war in the name of religion, religion should be analyzed politically. However, all too often... Read More
A Humanist Economics Louis Kelso and the Hope of Broadened Ownership
THOMAS PIKETTY grabbed the world’s attention last year with his magnum opus, Capital in the Twenty-first Century. In hundreds of pages of dense prose and statistics, Piketty delivers a mountain of proof for what most... Read More