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Rules Are for Schmucks: The Censored UN Report
Politicians don’t want to hear what they don’t want to hear. That’s why some of them, like Sen. Marco Rubio (R-FL), have stopped holding town hall meetings with their constituents. Willful clapping of hands over the... Read More
The Cartoon History of Humanism, Episode 52
View all episodes in the Cartoon History of Humanism series. Gods, Words, and Other Invasive Species: The Work of Daniel Dennett, Querysmith And one day, came the Horsemen. All in a lurch, atheism went from the... Read More
Rules Are for Schmucks: Debriefing McMaster
When H. R. McMaster was announced as the replacement for disgraced National Security Advisor Michael Flynn, initial reports disclosed a surprising detail. Not only did he have a brilliant record as a field commander in Iraq,... Read More
Humanist Women in History: Frances Fox Piven
March is Women’s History Month in the United States, the UK, and Australia. In commemoration we bring you the second of our five-part series: “Humanist Women in History.” The first, on Shirley Chisholm, the first African-American woman... Read More
No Gods, No Masters: A Day without Women in Secularism?
On the March 4 episode of Saturday Night Live, “Weekend Update” cohost Michael Che quipped: “March is Women’s History Month, while April is a lot of backed up dishes.” The joke got scant reaction from the... Read More
Living, Breathing Women: AHA Partners with NARAL to Protect Choice
The World Health Organization (WHO) published a policy manual in 2012 titled, “Safe abortion: technical and policy guidance for health systems.” The document highlights “the inextricable link between women’s health and human rights and the need... Read More
Humanist Women in History: Shirley Chisholm
March is Women’s History Month in the United States, the UK, and Australia. As luck would have it, there are five Wednesdays in March, so in commemoration we bring you the five-part series: “Humanist Women in... Read More
Hate Groups on the Rise: What They, and the President, Aren’t Saying
Last week a Jewish cemetery in St. Louis, Missouri, was vandalized by unknown radicals, and this week a Jewish cemetery was desecrated in Philadelphia. From the dark corners of the Internet, I’ve seen claims that anti-Semitism... Read More
Book Review: Materialism
Both left- and right-wing intellectuals agree that metaphysical convictions (our ideas about the fundamentals of reality) have social and political implications. The former's reasons for believing this tend to be unintelligible (or at least incommunicable), whereas the... Read More
The Cartoon History of Humanism, Episode 51
View all episodes in the Cartoon History of Humanism series. Barbara Ehrenreich and Liberalism's Cyclical Self Sabotage Two years ago it might have seemed that Barbara Ehrenreich’s writings could be safely consigned to the archives as... Read More