The Humanist Archives

January / February 2013

• EDITOR’S NOTE
• Experiments of Living
• Speaking Prose All Our Lives
• With Liberty & Justice for All
• Spare a Thought for Philosophy: An Interview with A.C. Grayling
• Colobus Conundrum
• Done In by the Patriot Act
• Beyond the Box
• Little Room
• Humanism in a Shitstorm
• Election Reflection: Whither Now, Religious Right?
• Embroidering History: An Englishwoman’s Experience as a Humanitarian Aid Volunteer in Post-War Poland, 1924-1925
• Attack of the Theocrats! How the Religious Right Harms Us All—And What We Can Do About It
• Damned Good Company: Twenty Rebels Who Bucked the God Experts

November / December 2012

• How I Got into This Room
• Truth, Deception, and the Myth of the One-Handed Scientist
• Humanity and the Planet Come First!
• It Can’t All Be True
• iFantasyAre Tech Giants Monopolizing the Future?
• Natural Allies: Humanism and Atheism+
• Is Freedom a Mistaken Idea?
• “Stranger at the Door”
• Time to Turn Silence into Activism
• Another Earth
• Immortality: The Quest to Live Forever and How It Drives Civilization

September / October 2012

• Editor’s Note
• A Woman’s Place? The Dearth of Women in the Secular Movement
• The Humanist Interview with Gloria Steinem
• The “Return” of the Welfare Queens: Feminism, Secularism, and Anti-Racism
• Free Will and the Anders Breivik Trial
• 1Flesh: Putting the “Sexy” Back in Abstinence
• Let’s Deal with It! A Rational Response to Sexual Harassment in Secular Spheres
• Gore Vidal: 1925-2012
• “The Assistant Professor of Physics”
• How Confrontationalism Can Open Doors
• Higgsology
• Interpersonal Dimensions of Humanism
• Building Bridges or Blowing Them Up? Secular Americans and the Future of Humanist Activism

July / August 2012

• Editor’s Note
• Nonbeliever Nation: The Rise of Secular Americans
• Evolution, Humanism, and Conservation: The Humanist Interview with Richard Leakey
• Prick the Bubbles, Pass the Mantle: Hitchens as Orwell’s Successor
• You’re Addicted to What?
• Drones in U.S. Flight Paths: What Could Go Wrong?
• Was Adam Smith a Marxist?
• Tending the Humanist Garden
• The Barton Lies: The Religious Right’s Favorite ‘Historian’ Gets Hit with a Dose of the Truth
• What Money Can’t Buy: the Moral Limits of Markets
• The Undead: Organ Harvesting, the Ice-Water Test, Beating-Heart Cadavers—How Medicine is Blurring the Line Between Life and Death
• The Social Conquest of Earth

May / June 2012

• Editor’s Note
• Getting Real: A Look at the New Skepticism
• Thinking Like a Scientist
• Religious Freedom or Government-Sanctioned Discrimination?
• Torture on Trial
• The Humanist Photo Contest Winners
• Legalizing Sexual Harassment and Legislating Rape
• Death and the Skeptic
• The Age of Movies: Selected Writings of Pauline Kael
• Barrier Methods: The Church’s Ceaseless Opposition to Birth Control
• Stretching It: An Englishwoman’s Search for American Spirituality
• Candidate Without a Prayer: An Autobiography of a Jewish Atheist in the Bible Belt
• Unbelievable! Faith, Reason, & the Search for Truth

March / April 2012

• Editor’s Note
• Black Churches and Blue-Eyed Jesuses
• The Hidden Hues of Humanism
• The Bible According to Thomas Jefferson
• Jefferson’s Women
• Resurrecting Jefferson’s Bible
• Going Anti-Postal
• The Inner Life of Humanists
• Overcoming Hidden Biases
• We Are All Where We Belong
• The Magic of Reality: How We Know What’s Really True