I sometimes have the impression that philosophers write books mainly for each other. Not so Daniel Dennett, whose latest book is aimed at ordinary civilians like us, and couched in language we can understand without... Read More

In The Selfish Gene (1976) Richard Dawkins proposed the term “meme” as a unit of cultural transmission analogous to the gene, in that both are transmitters of information. The gene’s information is expressed in its... Read More

We humanists can appreciate good quality television. Check out a few new shows and season openers that address humanist issues or feature humanist actors.  Television in 2013 is seeing something of a turnover. Breaking Bad... Read More

In theaters now, Elysium, starring Matt Damon and Jodie Foster, explores two worlds in an unequal universe. Matthew Bulger reviews the film and its exploration of transhumanism. A few weeks ago I decided to go... Read More

With his new book, The God Argument: The Case Against Religion and for Humanism, A.C. Grayling, the London-based author of The Good Book: A Humanist Bible, gives us exactly what he promises in the book’s... Read More

Sikivu Hutchinson is an author and activist who promotes a progressive—and aggressive—conception of humanism that is at once feminist, anti-racist, anti-homophobic, anti-classist, and anti-imperialist. She has no patience for nontheists who focus primarily on church/state... Read More

“The human being is by nature a social animal (Ho anthrōpos phusei politikon zōon).” —Aristotle, Politics (see also Nicomachean Ethics) In 2006, three years after retiring as the head of the Meadville Lombard Theological School... Read More