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HUMANIST INTERVIEW: Robin Morgan, 2007 Humanist Heroine
On Saturday, June 9, 2007, the Feminist Caucus of the American Humanist Association presented Robin Morgan with the Humanist Heroine Award. The following is adapted from her acceptance speech and the interview that followed. Robin Morgan... Read More
Humanism and Its Discontents
Joyce Carol Oates was presented with the 2007 Humanist of the Year award at the 66th Annual Conference of the American Humanist Association in Portland, Oregon, on June 8, 2007. The following article was adapted from... Read More
God Is Not Great: How Religion Poisons Everything
Its ability to withstand an assault by Christopher Hitchens is one testament to the hardiness of religious faith. (I wouldn't want him mad at me.) A famously adept debater, armed with wit and erudition, Hitchens can... Read More
The Rise of Christian Nationalism
What was a nice Jewish girl from Brooklyn doing attending megachurches across the United States, going to creationist textbook fairs, and traveling with the Ten Commandments monument? Investigative journalist Michelle Goldberg tells us in the... Read More
The Bishop, the Statesman, and the Wren Cross: A Lesson in American Secularism
Halfway down one wall of the Wren Chapel at the College of William and Mary in Williamsburg, Virginia, is a plaque in honor of Bishop James Madison, who is often confused with his more famous cousin,... Read More
Faith in Hiding: Are There Secular Grounds for Banning Abortion?
The Declaration of Independence asserts our rights to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness, but conflicts between these rights are commonplace. The extreme pro-life, anti-abortion position states that if there's a conflict between an embryo's... Read More
America the Beautiful’s Germ Warfare Rash
In his bellicose Cincinnati, Ohio, speech of October 7, 2002, President George W. Bush warned that Saddam Hussein must not be allowed to threaten America with "horrible poisons and diseases and gases and atomic weapons." While... Read More
Stark’s Reason: How a California Congressman Became the Most Honest Person in Politics
We have officially entered the presidential campaign season as details of candidates' personal histories and present lives come to the fore. In mid-March historians unearthed the Irish roots of presidential candidate Barack Obama (D-IL), identifying his... Read More
How to Counter Religion’s Toxic Effects
Edward O. Wilson and Daniel Dennett advocate new ways to think about religion that can have a profound impact on how we as humanists define our ideology and how we strengthen our public influence. In short,... Read More
Uneven Terrain: A Peace Corps Farmer in Paraguay Follows the Contours
Photos by Kelly Gleason Another issue of indubitable importance arises: the fact that certain members of the oppressor class join the oppressed in their struggle for liberation, thus moving from one pole of the contradiction to... Read More