The Humanist Archives

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

July / August 2019

• To change everything, we need everyone.
• Climate Justice: The Minnesota Model for Building a Better Future for Us All
• Imperial Borders and Mythical Frontiers
• Keep “God” and Theocrats Out of Our Wombs
• Why Are These Facts So Stubbornly Forbidden?
• Theocracy Watch: A Christian 51st State?
• CHURCH & STATE | If You Want Social Justice, Work For Church-State Separation
• FIRST PERSON | Dehumanized and Still Holding onto Jesus
• INSIDE THE WALLS | Reform 2.0: Love and Money
• HUMANISM 101 | End Cash Bail
• A Thousand Small Sanities: The Moral Adventure of Liberalism
• Bitten: The Secret History of Lyme Disease and Biological Weapons
• This Life: Secular Faith and Spiritual Freedom
• Slanted: How an Asian American Troublemaker Took on the Supreme Court

May / June 2019

• An Eschatological View of Climate Change: Bring It On
• Before and After the Court: The Humanist Interview with Monica L. Miller
• “America First” All over Again?
• What’s Really behind Evangelicals’ Climate Denial?
• Exploring the Historical Roots of Religious Freedom
• Celebrating 200 Years of Walt Whitman
• The Southern Baptist Convention’s Gospel of Rape and Redemption
• “Narrow Rulings” Mean Little to the Christian Right
• CHURCH & STATE | Denied the Right to Care
• FIRST PERSON | Nietzsche in New Guinea
• INSIDE THE WALLS | These Words Unspoken
• HUMANIST DILEMMA | Is It Ethical to Leave a So-So Marriage?
• Underground: A Human History of the Worlds beneath Our Feet
• Dying of Whiteness: How the Politics of Racial Resentment is Killing America’s Heartland
• Can American Capitalism Survive?

March / April 2019

• The Winter of Our Cross Dissent
• What a Secular Monument Looks Like
• What Are We Doing about Climate Change?
• From the Slaughter
• Lots of Love: Exploring Polyamory in Portland
• BOOK EXCERPT | Nick Meets Earl
• Learning Right from Wrong: How to Teach the Bible in Public Schools
• Slavery Was Once for Many a “Sincerely Held Belief”
• CHURCH & STATE | “Biblical Literacy” Is the Last Thing the Religious Right Wants to See in Public Schools
• PHILOSOPHICALLY SPEAKING | An Atheist with a Tall Hat On: The Forgotten History of Agnosticism
• FIRST PERSON | Who Moved My Child?
• The “Fake News” We Tell Ourselves
• Humanist Dilemma: Should I Boycott Amazon?
• 21 Lessons for the 21st Century
• America: The Farewell Tour