Rebecca Goldstein is a philosopher and acclaimed author whose books include the novels The Mind-Body Problem, The Dark Sister, and her latest, 36 Arguments for the Existence of God: A Work of Fiction, along with... Read More

From the Arab Spring and the Great Recession to the Eurozone Crisis and Chinese Inflation: Are We Headed toward a New World Disorder? In 1848 Europe was convulsed by revolution, the so-called “springtime of the... Read More

A typical sales pitch for the Humanist Institute’s graduate study program might go something like this: Do you want to learn the philosophical and scientific secrets that will put you on the cutting edge of... Read More

Leo Behe is not your typical young humanist. He’s the son of famed intelligent design proponent, author, and biochemist Michael Behe. Since 1996 the elder Behe, a professor at Lehigh University, has earned accolades from... Read More

Like a number of progressives, skeptics, and humanists, author Nikki Stern resisted the wholesale rush to judgment after the terrorist attacks on September 11, 2001. Stern, whose husband died in the attacks, found herself in an uncomfortable position... Read More

“He was usually not pictorially dramatic and many of his photographs appeared flat—not shocking enough for his contemporaries. The people in the photographs communicate directly to us as if they were still alive. They spill... Read More

"Kindly, trustful, wistful, amazingly innocent, his front is a mask for his power. He looks like an unworldly schoolteacher, needing protection from the rigors of the everyday world. But behind this disarming apparent naïveté is... Read More