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Blacks Do Atheism: Coming to an HBCU Near You
I remember the isolation I endured when I began to scrutinize my religious faith and when curiosity inevitably led me to apostasy. I was mainly closeted, as virtually everyone I knew was religious, and “atheism” at... Read More
Non-Lethal Weapon: How Lessons Learned in War Can Make Peace at Home
We’ve all heard of a “win-win” situation before. When it comes to a conflict, people on all sides tend to better flourish when they embrace the idea of a nonzero—that is, a situation where all parties... Read More
Fundamentalism on Trial
THE EMINENT University of Chicago historian Daniel Boorstin identified American humanism as the defining characteristic of the nation, which is the legacy of Thomas Jefferson and the entirely secular US Constitution. The real menace to the... Read More
The Arts for Humanists
OVER THE YEARS my wife and I have been very fortunate to have visited many of the great cities of Europe. One of the things we love best, and that we seek out in our travels,... Read More
Finding Trump’s Refugee Policy
Over the last weekend of January, Donald Trump screened his very first movie at the White House Family Theater: Finding Dory. He sat in the bright red president’s armchair watching an animated story about a forgetful... Read More
Land of Confusion: The Religious Right, Trump, and “Post-Truth” America
IF WE LEARNED nothing else from the 2016 election cycle, we certainly learned this: the religious right is morally bankrupt—utterly and profoundly so. You don’t have to look far to see proof of this, but one... Read More
Remaking Ourselves
HUMANISM HAS FAILED. This election has shown how our values were repudiated by many Americans in national, state, and local elections. There is still much to be learned, but for us it’s clear that a great... Read More
Fasten Your Seatbelts, It’s Going to be a Trumpy Ride
LET’S BE HONEST, thus far the Trump era has been a nightmare for humanist values. Tolerance? Not a lot. Truth? Apparently that one’s subjective. Compassion? Sure, for the religious right and the fossil fuel industry. Science... Read More
Village Atheists: How America’s Unbelievers Made Their Way in a Godly Nation
BOOK BY LEIGH ERIC SCHMIDT PRINCETON UNIVERSITY PRESS, 2016 360 PP.; $35.00 WHAT INITIALLY DREW ME to read Village Atheists was curiosity about life and challenges for secularists living in the United States more than a... Read More
Rules Are for Schmucks: The Case against Gorsuch
Senate Democrats are in hand-wringing mode over what to do about the Neil Gorsuch nomination to the US Supreme Court. As usual, much of their focus is on what’s politically expedient, rather than what’s right. It’s... Read More