The Humanist Archives

July / August 2020

• Defund, reallocate, reshape, humanize
• What a Tiny Virus Can Teach Us
• Beyond the Battlefield
• He Isn’t Big on Reform, He’s Big on Change: The Humanist Interview with Ashton Woods
• The White Imagination Must Be Bound
• Secular America Takes Action Today, So They Can Vote Tomorrow
• CHURCH & STATE | The Coronavirus Pandemic: Some Lessons I’ve Learned
• INSIDE THE WALLS | Remember the Dakotas
• WHAT WOULD A HUMANIST DO | Thrilled about Fauci’s Humanism, Scared of Conservative Backlash
• Poetry
• Richard Hofstadter: Anti-Intellectualism in American Life, The Paranoid Style in American Politics, Uncollected Essays 1956–1965

May / June 2020

• Health and Humanism
• Inspiration during a Quarantine
• Why Read?
• Philosophy in a Time of Pandemic
• Coronavirus Exposes Racial Disparities
• Fostering Discrimination: Will SCOTUS Allow Religion to Rule in Foster Care Placement?
• 320 Miles: Will the Conservative Court Take Abortion Restrictions Too Far?
• CHURCH & STATE | In the Face of a Deadly Global Pandemic, the Government Can Ban Large Gather-ings—Even Religious Ones
• HUMANISM & THE ARTS | The American Sound of Hope: George Gershwin’s Rhapsody in Blue
• FIRST PERSON | The Other Self
• How to Live a Good Life: A Guide to Choosing Your Personal Philosophy
• For Small Creatures Such as We: Rituals for Finding Meaning in Our Unlikely World
• Race in a Godless World: Atheism, Race, and Civilization, 1850–1914

March / April 2020

• In times of rampant lies, small steps toward truth matter most.
• Let’s Be Blunt: Cannabis Research Isn’t Where It Should Be
• The New “Roaring” Twenties
• I Testify: Congress Must Push for the Repeal of Blasphemy Laws Abroad
• American Jurisprudence on Trial
• Peace, Love, and Mathiness: Considering Bertrand Russell’s Relevance
• Spirit of the Law: Keeping Justice Alive in Red States
• Elevator Protest: The Wheels of Justice Grind Too Slowly for These New Yorkers
• CHURCH & STATE | Our Constitution Lacks a School Prayer Amendment—For That, You Can Thank These Champions
• SCIENCE WATCH | Why #whyteachevolution?
• PHILOSOPHICALLY SPEAKING | Humans Becoming Gods—or Chips in a Cosmic Computer?
• FIRST PERSON | The Priest Who Made Me an Atheist
• HUMANIST DILEMMA | Shall I Donate to the Most Downtrodden—Or to What I Love?
• The Power Worshippers: Inside the Dangerous Rise of Religious Nationalism
• Unbelievers: An Emotional History of Doubt
• The Selected Letters of Ralph Ellison

January / February 2020

• Beginning 2020 on a kind of road trip, exploring potential hazards ahead.
• Populists and Progressives
• Why I’m Not a Socialist
• Dreams of Dictatorship and the Nightmare of Brazil’s Jair Bolsonaro
• John Muir’s Radical Religion of Beauty
• If Voting Is So Important, Why Aren’t Fair, Open, Verifiable Elections Important?
• Shame Isn’t an Education
• CHURCH & STATE | The Five Strangest Things the Religious Right Believes about President Trump
• NONEDECISION 2020 | Four Decades of the None Vote
• INSIDE THE WALLS | Escaping the Gang Delusion: No Priests Required
• HUMANISM 101 | There Is No “Planet B”
• HUMANIST DILEMMA | Dare I Join the Daughters of the American Revolution?
• FIRST PERSON | Helping Hands
• Outgrowing God: A Beginner’s Guide
• Antisocial: Online Extremists, Techno-Utopians, and the Hijacking of the American Conversation
• The History of Philosophy

November / December 2019

• Imagine No Corruption
• Such a Voice Is Needed: The Humanist Interview with Salman Rushdie
• Things Are Looking Up: Uniting to Explore Our Universe
• Converting the Nones: Why an Aware Homo Secularis Is Paramount
• Planting Funny Seeds
• Speeches from Awardees Mara Wilson and Richard Wiseman
• Trump Ignores Climate, Gets into Hot Water at UN General Assembly
• King of This World: Irreligious Trump Remains Popular with Evangelicals
• The Importance of Organized Secularism in Politics
• CHURCH & STATE | There’s No Broad Right to Use Your Religious Beliefs to Discriminate against People—Yet
• PHILOSOPHICALLY SPEAKING | Simulation Rhapsody: How to Be Real Even If It’s All Fake
• HUMANISM 101 | The Human Mind Unbound
• HUMANIST DILEMMA | What Do You Do When Someone Asks to Launch Lunch with Prayer?
• The Testaments
• Machines Like Me
• The Case Against Free Speech: The First Amendment, Fascism, and the Future of Dissent

September / October 2019

• Skip the schadenfreude buffet and dig in to some humanism.
• Secular Students Are Leading the Way
• Living Humanist Values: The Ten Commitments
• Life and Why It Must Continue
• Of Gods & Bosses
• Living to Live: Rethinking Work & Idleness
• Mottos, Prayers, Courses, and Clubs
• A Humanist Take on the State Department’s Ministerial to Advance Religious Freedom
• CHURCH & STATE | Vouchers Pose a Threat to Public Schools and to the Public Good
• HUMANISM 101 | Predicting the Future by Making It
• FIRST PERSON | From Young-Earth Creationist to Full-Time Humanist
• HUMANISM & THE ARTS | The Terribly Prescient Genius of Sam Shepard’s True West
• HUMANIST DILEMMA | Who Needs a Wall When We Have Epistemic Closure?
• The Founding Myth: Why Christian Nationalism Is Un-American
• The Enigma of Clarence Thomas
• What It Means to Be Moral: Why Religion Is Not Necessary for Living an Ethical Life