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The Truth about Mike Pence: An Interview with Author Michael D’Antonio
In their new book, The Shadow President: The Truth about Mike Pence, journalists Michael D’Antonio and Peter Eisner do a very thorough job characterizing the vice president’s carefully crafted blandness—someone who’s thoughtful, concise, and pious, a... Read More
Humanist EDge: A Weekend Immersed in The Humanist Lifestance
Who am I? Who are we? How do I find meaning? What are the different varieties of contemporary and historical humanism? These are questions we asked and attempted to answer during this weekend’s course. The American Humanist Association's Center... Read More
Sexual Assault Reporting Apps: Perilous or Positive?
The rise of #MeToo and #TimesUp pushed sexual harassment and assault to the forefront of national and global conversations this year. Thanks to these movements, it isn’t as easy for our country to hide from its... Read More
The Humanevangelist: Time for the Catholic Laity to Take Control
More than a billion Catholics have no vote or voice in how their church operates. Revelation after revelation of high-level child-abuse conspiracies have failed to shift power. But now, eight centuries after Magna Carta trimmed the... Read More
Character Study: How Atheism Has Become Less Important—and More Interesting—on Screen
In the recent indie movie and surprise hit Eighth Grade, shy Kayla (Elsie Fischer) plays a sweet but often awkward girl struggling through one of life’s most precarious social situations: middle school. Writer and director Bo... Read More
The Humanist Dilemma: Can We Forego a Small Bit of Comfort to Avoid Making Someone Else Far More Uncomfortable?
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. Decline to Recline: Given all the very important issues... Read More
Ahead of the Curve: Food Fight
If you’re not interested in eating, you can skip this article and move on to the next. The technology underlying what we eat has changed enormously over the past century, from frozen food to fast food... Read More
As the Christian Church Crumbles, is Humanism Ready to Step Up?
THE CHRISTIAN CHURCH in the developed world is in collapse. This is true notwithstanding the current political resurgence of the religious right, which demographics show to be a cultural stab from the grave. Three million fewer... Read More
A New Vision for Secular Transcendence
LIFE IS SAD FOR US SECULAR PEOPLE. Foregoing church and other religious communities, we endure our drab and dreary days without hope, fellowship, joy, or meaning, without anything greater than our sorry selves and empty existences.... Read More
Exorcising the Ghosts of the Sixties
"I COULD NOT UNDERSTAND how anybody could rebel against a system so clearly benign." That authorial “I” was John Updike in his self-deluding memoir, Self-Consciousness; the rebels he was referring to were fed-up blacks, middle-class students,... Read More