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A Humanist’s Guide to Summer Reading
As the temperatures (and humidity!) start climbing, I start reaching for new and engaging reads to enjoy. In chatting with my colleagues around the office, so many mentioned the great books they’ve been reserving for the... Read More
Climate Justice: For the People, the Land, the Planet
Last Saturday the American Humanist Association’s Center for Education hosted “Climate Justice: A Better Future for Us All,” the latest in its open lecture series. Held at the First Unitarian Society of Minneapolis, the event featured... Read More
The Humanist Dilemma: When the Aid Impulse Collides with a Sense of Futility
Experiencing an ethical dilemma? Need advice from a humanist perspective? Send your questions to The Humanist Dilemma at dilemma@thehumanist.com (subject line: Humanist Dilemma). All inquiries are kept confidential. Overwhelmed by Need to Help: Everywhere I look, I... Read More
Celebrate International Day of Families
In 1993 the United Nations General Assembly proclaimed May 15 as the International Day of Families in order to “promote awareness of issues relating to families and to increase knowledge of the social, economic, and demographic... Read More
When Non-Stories Become Stories: A Media-Manufactured Controversy
If you’ve been losing faith in the American press—in the ability of even mainstream journalists to discern the relevant from the irrelevant and to report responsibly on the former—you’ll probably want to avoid op-ed columnist Joan... Read More
“America First” All over Again?
BEFORE STEVE BANNON was kicked out of the White House in the fall of 2017, he said he wanted the Trump presidency to be “as exciting as the 1930s.” Odious as that sounds given Bannon’s affection... Read More
What’s Really behind Evangelicals’ Climate Denial?
BY ALL ESTIMATES, the earth has gone through five mass extinctions, all of which were the direct result of some form of cataclysmic climate change. These cataclysmic changes were mostly caused by large amounts of... Read More
Exploring the Historical Roots of Religious Freedom
STEVEN WALDMAN is a former journalist he was the national editor of US News & World Report, a national correspondent for Newsweek, and the founder and former editor in chief of Beliefnet), and he served as... Read More
Celebrating 200 Years of Walt Whitman
“And I say to any man or woman, Let your soul stand cool and composed before a million universes. And I say to mankind, Be not curious about God, For I who am curious about each... Read More
Can American Capitalism Survive?
BY STEVEN PEARLSTEIN ST. MARTIN'S PRESS, 2018 205 PP.; $27.99 Steven Pearlstein’s Can American Capitalism Survive? Why Greed Is Not Good, Opportunity Is Not Equal, and Fairness Won’t Make Us Poor is as mildly unconventional as... Read More