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Humanist EDge: Celebrating Summer with Humanist Books for Kids
In July we celebrate Independence Day, as well as national days for blueberries, ice cream, French fries, and more. July also marks the onset of the dog days of summer and it’s National Anti-Boredom month. To... Read More
Embracing the Discomfort of Progress: An Interview with Krista Cox
This year the American Humanist Association’s Annual Conference (its 79th) is going completely virtual. On Saturday, August 8, 2020, from 11:00am – 6:30pm ET, the AHA will host a day-long conference: Distant but Together: A Virtual Celebration... Read More
A Tale of Two Plagues: How Faith Changes
Besides the global pandemic we’re experiencing right now, the bubonic plague is probably the most notorious in history—in particular, the Black Death that took place during the middle of the fourteenth century and swept across Europe,... Read More
Art, Imagination and Humanism: An Interview with Jé Exodus Hooper
In February 2019, Jé Exodus Hooper premiered his debut film Humanitas at the New York Society for Ethical Culture. The forty-five-minute film has been screened at conferences, festivals, and humanist communities across the country, igniting conversations... Read More
What a Tiny Virus Can Teach Us
"WE'RE ALL IN THIS TOGETHER." If a pandemic can be said to have a slogan, this was surely it. Please, don’t take my word for it. Let’s ask Google. As a search term, “together” drifted along... Read More
Beyond the Battlefield
Research in America is parsing the depths of psychological trauma, revealing invisible injuries beyond the traditional diagnosis of PTSD. This has important applications for healthcare workers caught up in the COVID-19 pandemic. Amid myriad tragic stories... Read More
The White Imagination Must Be Bound
On Memorial Day, George Floyd became the latest Black life to be brutally taken at the hands of police officers. It happened after he was arrested for buying cigarettes with a counterfeit $20 bill. There is... Read More
CHURCH & STATE | The Coronavirus Pandemic: Some Lessons I’ve Learned
The chances are good that by the time you read this, your state will be undergoing at least a partial reopening in light of the coronavirus pandemic. We’re not out of the woods yet, of course.... Read More
Richard Hofstadter: Anti-Intellectualism in American Life, The Paranoid Style in American Politics, Uncollected Essays 1956–1965
EDITED BY SEAN WILENTZ LIBRARY OF AMERICA, 2020 Conspiracy theories are the last refuge of the status quo—its last line of ideological defense. “It’s not that our institutions are bad,” a conspiracy theory promises, “It’s that... Read More
What Would a Humanist Do? Celebrating Juneteenth
Today we bring you our latest installment of “What Would a Humanist Do?”—offering multiple AHA staff opinions on the same question. As with our long-running “Humanist Dilemma” column by Joan Reisman-Brill, readers often ask what qualifies... Read More