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Travis W.
Travis W. is serving a life sentence in the Iowa Department of Corrections. He is a regular contributor to the Inside the Walls column.
How Jackson Correctional Institution formed a Humanist Chapter
“It’s like trying to herd cats.” This is the analogy that inevitably comes up when someone endeavors to form a community of freethinkers. I had never considered the scenario in the “free world” as many of... Read More
Join Us at the Crossroads for AHACON2023
Let’s be real: the past several years have been A LOT. With a pandemic, racial reckoning, Insurrection and more, it’s clear that America is at a crossroads. It’s urgent, now more than ever, that the people... Read More
Ethical Friends of Children: Helping Families in Need
Ethical Friends of Children (EFC) is an outreach program of the Ethical Humanist Society of Long Island (EHSLI), a chapter of the American Humanist Association established in 1985. We collect items for children and give them... Read More
Journeys to Humanism: Embracing Reality
Journeys to Humanism, theHumanist.com’s regular series, features real stories from humanists in our community. From heartwarming narratives of growth, to more difficult journeys, our readers open up about their experiences coming to humanism. James Jarrett This... Read More
BOOK EXCERPT | Nick Meets Earl
The following is an adapted excerpt from The Church of Exemptions: A Farce with Footnotes by Luis Granados (Humanist Press, February 25, 2019). The story follows Nick Fratelli, a young, underachieving government lawyer with an interest... Read More
Natural Disasters & the Humanist Response
LAST FALL THE UNITED STATES and the Caribbean were battered by three devastating, record-breaking hurricanes—Harvey in Texas and Louisiana, Irma in the Caribbean and Florida, and Maria in Puerto Rico and other Caribbean islands. The destructive... Read More
Ahead of the Curve: “America Second”
President Trump in his inaugural address assured us that the guiding principle of the new administration would be “America First.” “America will start winning again, winning like never before,” he promised. Many of us found his... Read More
Escaping the God-Zombies
The acquisition of one’s faculties by the creationists begins the moment you arrive at jail or prison, and continues ad infinitum. One soon experiences the “penitentiary.” Taking the career criminal out of the equation, most people... Read More
Hey Milo, “You’re Fired”
Milo Yiannopoulos, a key figure of the alt-right, white nationalist, anti-Semitic “news” site Breitbart, came under intense fire as a result of comments that recently surfaced where he seemingly defends pedophilia. Yiannopoulos consistently denies that he’s... Read More