Over the last couple weeks at protests and rallies standing up against racial injustice, one phrase has stuck out as particularly controversial—“defund the police.” It’s easy to think that phrase is the beginning of a... Read More

An excerpt from Diderot and the Art of Thinking Freely by Andrew S. Curran Sometime during the snowy winter of 1793, under cover of night, a small group of thieves pried open a wooden door... Read More

Please welcome Julia Shapiro, summer intern at the Center for Freethought Equality! TheHumanist.com: What is your educational and work background? I am a rising junior at the University of Florida in Gainesville, Florida, studying history... Read More

When US Secretary of Education Betsy Devos announced her intention to restructure Title IX back in November of 2018, it left the educational community nervous and civil rights advocates on alert. Part of the Education... Read More

Charlotte Eulette, the international director of the Celebrant Foundation & Institute (CF&I), reached out to the Humanist Society to share her two decades of experience educating professional Life-Cycle Celebrants®. (Celebrants, generally speaking, are individuals who... Read More

The COVID-19 pandemic has turned our world upside down. Nowhere is this more true than on college campuses. Seven weeks ago, colleges and universities began to close down in compliance with state and federal advice... Read More

On Friday, May 1, Congressional Freethought Caucus member Jamie Raskin (D-MD) introduced House Resolution 947 to recognize May 7, 2020, as the National Day of Reason. The resolution, introduced annually since 2015 and cosponsored this year by fellow caucus members... Read More