The Winter of Our Cross Dissent
As I write we are eight days away from oral arguments in Maryland-National Capital Park and Planning Commission v. American Humanist Association, in which... Read More
Have We Crossed a Line with Social Media?
I'm one of those semi-reluctant social media interactors who has to engage a bit for work but who mainly enjoys the cute cat and... Read More
We’ve All Got to be Winners—Not a Bad Humanist Slogan
Two authors (one who writes about physics, the other on issues of gender and race), a trans activist, an environmentalist, and a couple of... Read More
If the Enrichment of Humanity is our Project, Tighter Bonds and Bigger Gifts May be the Key
A recent New York Times piece by Molly Worthen (author of the book Apostles of Reason: The Crisis of Authority in American Evangelicalism) examines... Read More
I’ll Continue to Affirm that This Was a Failure of the Editor.
On May 7 a white woman at Yale called campus police on fellow graduate student Lolade Siyonbola, a black woman who had fallen asleep... Read More
It’s Time to Learn a Thing or Two about Consent
Imagine a scenario where a university science department hosts a speaker and that man wants to go out dancing after the faculty dinner. No... Read More
Countering Frustration with Enlightenment Now
“IT WOULD BE A MISTAKE to think the message of the book is that we should be optimistic,” Steven Pinker tells our science and... Read More
Goodness Trumped Racism in Alabama. Goodness Trumped Homophobia and Theocracy. And Yes, It Trumped Sexism and Sexual Predation.
Well, I’ll be damned. Alabama elected Democrat Doug Jones to the US Senate and sent the awful Roy Moore and his pistol packing. So... Read More
The Time Is Ripe for Some Good Old Humanist Inspiration
I DON’T KNOW ABOUT YOU, but I’m really freaked out these days. Last weekend my daughter (soon to be thirteen) told me she felt... Read More
We Must Turn to Action to Define our Humanism
IF, AS H.L. MENCKEN SAID, Puritanism is the “haunting fear that someone, somewhere, may be happy,” can we then say that humanism is—or should... Read More