The Humanist Archives

September / October 2017

• We must turn to action to define our humanism.
• Making Good: Humanist Philanthropy and the Duty to Give
• How Poverty Kills Wonder and What We Can Do About It
• Gamm On: The Humanist Interview with Philanthropist Gordon Gamm
• Cherri Pitts: A Rose Amongst San Antonio’s STARs
• Breaking Camp
• Conservation Lessons from a Still-Wild River
• The Sanctity of Human Life Act
• Church, State, and Taxpayer Support
• Distractions
• Poetry & Paint
• What’s in the Name? All of Us
• Rehabilitation Through Humansim
• Why I Left, Why I Stayed: Conversations on Christianity Between an Evangelical Father and His Humanist Son
• Kill All Normies: Online Culture Wars from 4Chan and Tumblr to Trump and the Alt-Right

July / August 2017

• Humanist Sexploration
• The Future of Sex
• Tough Fluidity
• Everything You Know about Sex Is Wrong
• Belief in a Shared Future
• Reason in Bronze
• Terror’s Afterlife
• Choosing Your Fight
• What’s behind the New Attack on Birth Control?
• On Demonstrations and Virtue Signaling
• Sex: Our Wonderful Gift
• Why Write about History?
• Sexual Relativity and Gender Revolution
• Made in China
• When Colorblindness Isn’t the Answer: Humanism and the Challenge of Race
• Jesus and Magdalene

May / June 2017

• I wanted to ask Secretary DeVos about college and heaven.
• Christian Hegemony in the Age of Trump
• Can Bacteria Help Us Understand Religion?
• Humanism and the Challenge of Privilege
• Ask What You Can Do for Your Climate
• Evolution’s Error: How Human Nature Went Awry
• Prepare to March for Science and the Climate
• Live Well, Die Well: Does Neil Gorsuch Understand Epicurus?
• The Great “Persecution of Christians” Myth
• GOP Healthcare Failure: Resistance Is Still Not Futile
• Let’s Celebrate!
• It Was Fifty Years Ago Today …
• I’m Doing My Part, Are You?
• A Ladder Is to Climb
• Life Without a Spine
• Integers
• To Be a Machine: Adventures Among Cyborgs, Utopians, Hackers, and the Futurists Solving the Modest Problem of Death
• Willoughbyland: England’s Lost Colony
• The Book That Changed America: How Darwin’s Theory of Evolution Ignited a Nation

March / April 2017

• Fasten your seatbelts, it’s going to be a Trumpy ride.
• Towards a Post-Lies Future
• The New Secular Moment
• Fundamentalism on Trial
• The Arts for Humanists
• The Speed of Thought
• Save Our Science, Save Our Planet
• Finding Trump’s Refugee Policy
• Land of Confusion: The Religious Right, Trump, and “Post-Truth” America
• What Can We Do?
• Behaviorism
• Remaking Ourselves
• Calendrical Reform
• Village Atheists: How America’s Unbelievers Made Their Way in a Godly Nation
• Women Beyond Belief: Discovering Life without Religion
• The Kingstone Bible

January / February 2017

• Why is this starting to sound like “The Twelve Days of a Plutocratic Christmas”?
• Make America Kind Again
• Who Will We Speak For? Humanism’s Role in Defending Human Rights and Civil Liberties
• An Action List for the (Un)Faithful
• Opiate of the Masses: What’s Really Driving America’s Prescription Drug Epidemic
• Standing with Standing Rock: My Humanism Won’t Let Me Stay Silent
• The Common Sense of Oklahomans
• Segregation Now and Forever: Betsy DeVos and the Looting of Public Education
• Want to Survive the Next Four Years? First Step: Open Your Mouth
• Resist
• My Longest Day
• Bob Dylan, Nobel Laureate
• The Virtue of Doing Less: Bertrand Russell’s Idleness
• Leonardo Flies Home
• AT WINTER
• Nutshell
• His Porn, Her Pain: Confronting America’s PornPanic With Honest Talk About Sex
• The Story of Reason in Islam

November / December 2016

• It makes you proud to be a humanist.
• Science & Religion in the Rough
• Active Duty: My Dedication to Liberty, Justice, and an End to Wars
• A Bridge Supreme: Connecting Humanism to a Liberal, Loving Christianity
• I Am What I Am, and Other Truths
• Speeches from Awardees Elizabeth Loftus and John de Lancie
• The Case for Re-Enfranchisement
• Blasphemy Laws Attack Free Expression—
Can Freethought Hit Back?
• No Moore: Alabama Is Finally Rid of the Worst Judge in America
• Niki Massey, and Why Some Humanist Voices Don’t Get Heard
• Hope
• A Thanksgiving Prayer
• The Gene: An Intimate History