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HUMANIST DILEMMA | Dare I Join the Daughters of the American Revolution?
Not the Daughter They Think I Am: I’ve been looking for the perfect place to voice my concern and think your column may be best. I am an open atheist and humanist chaplain who recently applied... Read More
Beginning 2020 on a Kind of Road Trip, Exploring Potential Hazards Ahead
It’s 2020! Let the ironic wordplay about clear and perfect vision begin. Or maybe we go with a different metaphor about surviving the difficult teen years of the twenty-first century. How we’re now ready to act... Read More
Antisocial: Online Extremists, Techno-Utopians, and the Hijacking of the American Conversation
BY ANDREW MARANTZ VIKING, 2019 400PP.; $28.00 What happened when New Yorker staff writer Andrew Marantz investigated some of the most sinister inhabitants of the internet underworld and, alas, our real world? What didn’t happen was... Read More
Nonedecision 2020: Nones and the Changing Composition of Party Coalitions
In last month’s inaugural Nonedecision 2020 column I focused on the nones—Americans who claim no religious affiliation—and their electoral preferences in presidential elections since 1980. We learned that in the past four decades, at least a... Read More
For Just and Equitable Food Systems: An Interview with Brenda Sanders
Brenda Sanders is a vegan food justice activist who works in marginalized communities of color to create a viable alternative to animal-based food systems. By offering education classes around veganism, interactive cooking demos, and resources to improve people's... Read More
From the Magazine: Humanist Profile: Alain Locke
“Art must discover and reveal the beauty which prejudice and caricature have overlaid.” —Alain Locke Alain LeRoy Locke was born on September 13, 1885, the only child of Pliny Ishmael Locke (the first black employee of... Read More
#HomeIsHere
The weather was none too pleasant for attendees at Tuesday’s Supreme Court rally in support of the immigration policy known as DACA (Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals). The rain hitting the faces of young and old... Read More
The Firebrand’s New Brand: David Silverman’s Return to Atheist Leadership
I was raised a Missouri-Synod Lutheran in rural Wisconsin, and nearly every Sunday of my childhood included a long, white room where folding tables full of people I’d known forever enjoyed some kind of casserole, plastic... Read More
We Get It—It’s Halloween, but My Culture Isn’t Your Costume
I think it’s safe to say that many of us are excited for Halloween! (I’m googling and pinning my favorite costumes as I write this article.) And it may sound redundant to remind you that dressing... Read More
Meet the Intern: Eeba Ali
Please welcome our new social media & communications intern, Eeba Ali! TheHumanist.com: What is your educational and work background? Right now, I am working on my undergraduate degree with an interest in educational policy and language.... Read More