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As Earth barrels toward climate catastrophe and rising authoritarianism, a new frontier is quietly being sold to us: the stars. Billionaire futurists like Elon Musk and Jeff Bezos promise salvation through space colonization – a Plan... Read More

Author’s Note: I have taken the liberty of referring to God as “He,” the most preposterous assumption in human history.  One might not think so, given all the cerebral works on the subject, but there are... Read More

Adapted from Chapter 2 of Harari's Humanist Wars of Religion: A Critique of Harari's History of Modern Ideologies by Leslie Allan In Sapiens and Homo Deus, Yuval Noah Harari tells his readers that modern humanism splintered... Read More

WHAT IS THE DEFINITION OF HUMANISM? How does one live as a humanist? Like many of you, I have read a plethora of articles and longer works defining humanism. Each proclaims a different emphasis highlighting various... Read More

Growing up in another valley so far away as to be a different country—growing taller and growing leaner but somehow never wiser—between mountains the mining outfit was slowly carving up, slowly carting away, I can still... Read More

Because I’m such an expert on everything, most of my articles end with an emphatic period. This one ends with a troubled question mark. We heard some fabulous news last week. Scientists in Ohio reported success... Read More

The Saturday morning cartoon has long been a hallmark of many kids’ weekend. Back in my parents’ day, this meant shows like Looney Toons and Super Friends, while for me it meant Dexter’s Laboratory, Samurai Jack,... Read More

We view our religions through lenses forged in early childhood. Because we grow intimately accustomed to these frames of reference, identifying internal flaws or systemic contradictions becomes an extraordinary cognitive challenge. Inherited dogmas feel intuitively correct... Read More

I LOVED MY MOTHER. I’m sure you love your mother, too. Joan Adele Rice Naff (1931-2015) would be indignant to find clichés here, so let’s muscle the mush out of the way. She died December 9,... Read More

Abstract: The article offers a meditation on AI’s emerging ability to decode human emotions. When the author discovers a childhood photo from her time in a Polish hospital during the communist era, she engages an AI to... Read More