BOOK BY SAM HARRIS AND MAAJID NAWAZ HARVARD UNIVERSITY PRESS, 2015 144 PP.; $17.95 (HARDCOVER), $9.99 (KINDLE) Sam Harris began his public-intellectual life back in 2004 with the release of his first book, The End... Read More

For a bulk of it, 1,000 Lashes seems like a compellingly dull book. If its passages were published in, for example, The New York Times, they would probably come off as the last breath of consensus liberalism. Intellectuals are overpraised for... Read More

The Last Aloha is first and foremost a love story. As a luminary in freethought and feminist circles, Cleo Fellers Kocol (1988 Humanist Heroine) could have centered her memoir on her activism in those areas,... Read More

A group of elephants attempts to describe a human being. Tragically, they are blind, but as each snuffles and nudges they call out what they perceive and together they are able to come up with... Read More

Being Called is an academic collection of essays that attempts to define and explain the experience of a “calling” from scientific, secular, and sacred perspectives in order to bridge the so-called big questions found in... Read More

Humanist leaders look for media opportunities to explain our positions to the general public, and are usually countered by decidedly non-humanist opponents. In his new book, Creating Change through Humanism, American Humanist Association Executive Director... Read More

As the U.S. political scene has evolved, more and more Americans have begun to realize that the nation suffers from deep, systemic problems. The sad truth is that American democracy is dysfunctional, with government (and... Read More