IT WAS NO SMALL TASK for Lawrence Krauss to make it to the Grand Hyatt in Denver on May 9 to accept the 2015... Read More

WHILE I DO love to quote people who say profound and entertaining things, I’m not normally one for adages. But here’s one that’s apropos:... Read More

IT MAY OR MAY NOT surprise you to know that there are self-identified humanists who don’t think systemic racism is a big problem in... Read More

NONBELIEVERS have got to be tired of hearing critics claim that in the absence of God, all hell breaks loose. The famous aphorism, “Without... Read More

JE SUIS CHARLIE. But who are we? Who are they? There’s a scene in the 1979 film Apocalypse Now when the character Lt. Col.... Read More

MOST OF US don’t choose the time of our death and don’t have any idea when we’ll die. And that’s a good thing. Living... Read More

THE TRADITION here at the Humanist is to devote our year-end issue to highlighting the wonderful individuals honored at the American Humanist Association’s annual... Read More

I ONCE READ somewhere that Hershey’s Kisses were named after the machine that forms them—the two mechanical parts that first deposit the chocolate come... Read More

THINK YOU'RE not going anywhere when you die? Of course, we all eventually “return” to the earth in one form or another after the... Read More

WHEN SEARCHING for the right words to paint some stripe of human behavior, I find it’s so often true that Mark Twain said it... Read More