ON FATHER'S DAY I like to remember my dad by watching a nature survival movie, his genre of choice. This year it was The... Read More

I doubt the words “college” and “heaven” have ever been intertwined in this magazine. (You may recall your college days as halcyon but humanists... Read More

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.... Read More

ON ELECTION EVE I finally got really excited about the first Democratic female president. Two days before that the adult choir at the UU... Read More

When you consider the names on the list of recipients of the Humanist of the Year award, and the contributions that these individuals have... Read More

Admittedly, the older I get the less I understand the younger generation. And yet I see how important it is to resist what Bertolt... Read More

It’s graduation season, which means lots of pomp and circumstance (even for my daughter who, believe it or not, just participated in a two-hour... Read More

The challenge for a magazine published by a nonprofit that enjoys tax-exempt status is to discuss the U.S. presidential election without directly supporting or... Read More

I'VE LONG BEEN what the author of this issue’s cover story and other animal welfare advocates would call a human speciesist. This means that... Read More

SEVENTY-FIVE YEARS is more than just three-quarters of the way to a century. If you’ve worked hard and you’re in good health and you’ve... Read More