Making Friends in High Places Three American peace activists meet their young Afghani counterparts
Bamiyan Province in Afghanistan, a stunningly beautiful mountainous region, is located in the center of the country, roughly 100 miles northwest of Kabul. Most... Read More
A Bad Month for Atheists?
Following the January 8, 2011, mass shooting in Tucson, Arizona, that killed federal judge John Roll along with five others and injured fourteen people,... Read More
Humanists in Haiti
When a devastating 7.0-magnitute earthquake struck near the Haitian capital of Port-au-Prince on January 12, 2010, leaving over one million homeless and in dire... Read More
The Universal Declaration of Human Rights: Still Ahead of Its Time?
Threescore years ago, on December 10, 1948, fifty-three nations on the earth, scarred by a terrible war, brought forth something new in human history,... Read More
The Accidental Atheist: From Hippie to Humanist in Half a Century
I was born eight months after my parents were married in 1931 and from there my life has been one accident after another. My... Read More
The Convictions of a Humanist
The great humanist lion, Paul Kurtz, was honored by the American Humanist Association on Saturday, June 9, 2007, at its annual conference in Portland,... Read More
A Humanist Manifesto Turns Seventy-Five
Adolf Hitler was appointed chancellor of Germany in January, Franklin Delano Roosevelt was inaugurated as president of the United States in March, Mohandas Gandhi... Read More
Compassion, Empathy and Being a Humanist
RECENTLY A HUMANIST friend asked if compassion and empathy had any place in our lives, and if so, who or what were the focuses... Read More
Environment and the New Humanism
*Adapted from an address given on April 22, 2007, as part of "The New Humanism" conference held at Harvard University. I want to begin... Read More
Humanism and Its Discontents
Joyce Carol Oates was presented with the 2007 Humanist of the Year award at the 66th Annual Conference of the American Humanist Association in... Read More