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Is Humanism the Answer?
As I reflect on the 76th Annual Conference of the American Humanist Association, held June 8-11 in Charleston, South Carolina, I keep returning to a conversation I had with Conor Robinson, projects director with the Foundation... Read More
Deconstructing Hate: False Southern Prophets Fall in New Orleans
Last week the mayor of New Orleans, Mitch Landrieu, visited the Center for American Progress (CAP) and joined CAP President and CEO Neera Tanden for a conversation on race in America. Landrieu focused primarily on his... Read More
Going There in Charleston: AHA Conference Celebrates and Challenges Humanist Philosophy
On Monday, June 5, I started my first day at the American Humanist Association in Washington, DC, as the summer editorial intern for the Humanist magazine. On Wednesday, June 7 I flew out to Charleston, South... Read More
Rules Are for Schmucks: Is St. Louis “Orwellian”?
Dan, a grocery clerk, tells his boss he needs to take a day off because he’s having a vasectomy. His boss replies, “Take the rest of your life off—you’re fired.” Amy asks her landlord if there... Read More
TV Review: The Handmaid’s Tale
[Spoiler alert: this review contains extensive plot details] The first thing the viewer notices in the Hulu TV series adaptation of Margaret Atwood’s The Handmaid’s Tale is how “trains-running-on-time” the theocracy is. As with Nazi Germany, everything in... Read More
The Humanist Dilemma: Is It Intolerant Not To Tolerate Intolerance?
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. Drawing the Line at Demons: Being open-minded to... Read More
…Without God
In last week’s Exercise #2 we asked where, as a nonbeliever, you find purpose and a sense of morality and about what moves you. The response was immense. Here we present a dozen reader responses. What... Read More
The Greening of Bill Gates
While some form of nontheism is a necessary condition of humanism, it isn’t sufficient. And for a long time Bill Gates’s putative nontheistic personal philosophy hasn’t seemed sufficient in the light of a number of his... Read More
Mourning with Manchester
After hearing reports of the explosion in Manchester last night, like many people my reaction was “not again.” No doubt extensive media coverage would focus on the “responsibility” of moderate Muslims to contribute more to the... Read More
Book Review: The Evangelicals: The Struggle to Shape America
BOOK BY FRANCES FITZGERALD SIMON & SCHUSTER, 2017 752 PP.; 35.00 For humanists, dedicated to critical thinking, reason, and firmly opposed to supernatural beliefs, there may be no group in the United States more directly opposed... Read More