I’M SKEPTICAL about a great many things. Personally, I’m skeptical that a smartphone will drastically improve my life. I’m skeptical that my hybrid has... Read More

“OFTEN AMERICA is celebrated as a place that forgets,” writes Lonnie G. Bunch, director of the National Museum of African American History and Culture... Read More

IS OCCUPY WALL STREET a humanist movement? On the one hand, seeing the Occupy phenomenon as largely an economic protest, how could it be?... Read More

AWARDS CEREMONIES are fun, right? People who receive awards from an august body at some sort of gala, such as the American Humanist Association’s... Read More

DID YOU HEAR THE ONE about the rich getting to keep their tax loopholes and havens while the numbers of poor people in the... Read More

Somebody famous once said,“Trust your instincts; then your mistakes will be your own. Instinct is a better guide to truth than reason.” That somebody... Read More

HAVE YOU HUGGED a friendly multinational corporation today? So the PR campaign for corporate America may go if the left’s populist anger toward corporate... Read More

The Rally to Restore Sanity and/or Fear held October 30 here in Washington, DC, sure was a lot of fun. The weather was gorgeous,... Read More

Confirmed: Bill Nye is our kind of guy. A science guy. An ethics guy. A wildly entertaining kind of guy (both comically and intellectually).... Read More

WHAT IS the central dilemma for humanists? I was recently asked this question and responded that on the subject of religion, humanists must decide... Read More