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Equality of rights under the law shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any State on account of sex. —Section 1, Equal Rights Amendment George Santayana’s famous quote, “Those who cannot... Read More
If English Was Good Enough for Jesus…
Listening to talk radio is like picking a scab. It’s hard to stop. And why stop? Despite its reputation for offering little more than anonymous plebeian banter, there is often some wisdom to be gleaned from... Read More
Letters to the Editor
June 10, 2009 Are humanists a happy or a miserable lot? HNN readers react to Doug Thomas' column: (Re: Why Do Humanists Seem so Unhappy?, Humanist Network News, May 13, 2009.) I have noted the same... Read More
Bad/Good Teachers
The Law of Unintended Consequences comes in many forms, which is the point of the so-called ancient Chinese curse: “May you get what you wish for.” A less dramatic way of expressing this sentiment is to... Read More
The Reason “Everything Happens for a Reason”
The following is an excerpt from Living Without God: New Directions for Atheists, Agnostics, Secularists, and the Undecided by Ronald Aronson (Counterpoint Press, 2008) Belonging to an impatient culture promising instant answers, often poorly equipped and... Read More
OPERATION BABY LIFT: An Adoptee’s Perspective
In April 1975, under the manufactured threat of a mass slaughter of infants and children by advancing North Vietnamese forces, Western relief agencies and orphanages in South Vietnam, and finally the U.S. government, pressed into action... Read More
LOCKDOWN: Are Teens (and Taxpayers) Paying the Price at Christian Reform Schools?
The year was 1986. I was a somewhat normal sixteen-year-old, enjoying the Southern California summer weather, trips to the beach, and preparing to start my junior year of high school in Orange County. However, my puberty-driven... Read More
Cry If You Want To—Cases of Mistaken Atheism Still Offensive
If someone threw a party in your honor, would you go? Now, before you say yes and then ask where, when, and if you should bring your dance moves, consider the full question: If a Godless... Read More
Why Genocide?
Over the past fifteen years United Nations tribunals have addressed genocide issues associated with conflicts in Bosnia, Rwanda, and Darfur. The most recent development in this connection is the arrest on July 18, 2008, of Radovan... Read More
Inexorably toward Trial: Reflections on the Dover Case and the “Least Dangerous Branch”
Judge John E. Jones III of the U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Pennsylvania is one of the foremost defenders of evolution in public schools, ruling the teaching of intelligent design unconstitutional in public... Read More