The Humanist Archives

March / April 2018

• Countering frustration with enlightenment now
• Enlightenment Wow: The Humanist Interview with Steven Pinker
• Fighting Post-Truth
• It’s Long Been a Man’s World. Can Women Save It?
• Paranoia and the Pursuit of Happiness
• Finding Clara Barton
• If the Second Amendment Was Meant for Genocide, Is It Sacred?
• Controlling Bodies: An Interview with Andrea J. Ritchie
• Not-So-Civil Religion: The Long-Running Fraud of “Ceremonial Deism”
• Pop Culture and Suspension of Disbelief: The Good Place
• What Will Be Human in the Future?
• Little Hell on the Prairie
• Virtual Reality and Empathy
• Objection! The Word of God Doesn’t Belong in a Courtroom
• RITUAL
• How to Be a Stoic: Using Ancient Philosophy to Live a Modern Life
• An Organized Panic

January / February 2018

• Goodness trumped racism in Alabama. Goodness trumped homophobia and theocracy. And yes, it trumped sexism and sexual predation.
• The Monster Hijacking Human Minds
• Call in the Robocops
• How the Loss of Critical Reasoning is Harming America
• The Making of a Modern Pilgrim
• Seven Days in Cuba
• On Policies and Purple
• CNN and Trump: A Noxious Marriage
• Humanist Goals
• Can American Democracy Survive Trump’s Reign of Lies?
• Human Value and the Puritan Work Ethic
• The Personal Geography of Deconversion
• I Can’t Breathe: A Killing on Bay Street
• An Atheist Stranger in a Strange Religious Land: Selected Writings from the Bible Belt

November / December 2017

• The time is ripe for some good old humanist inspiration.
• Building Humanism, Busting Myth and Privilege
• Saving the Deep Blue Yonder
• Civil Rights and Our Nation’s Conscience
• In Bed With the Humanists
• Smile, There is No Hell (and Other Humanist Wisdom)
• Remembering the Elaine Massacre
• Take a Knee for Freedom of Religion
• When Religious Freedom Is a Recipe for Discrimination
• History Has its Eyes on Us
• A Warm Embrace
• Humanist Profile: Staceyann Chin
• POETRY: The sample is shining
• A Crack in Creation: Gene Editing and the Unthinkable Power to Control Evolution
• Cigarettes & Wine
• Fantasyland: How America Went Haywire: A 500-Year History

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