The Humanist Archives

July / August 2013

• EDITOR’S NOTE
• The Lone Humanist
• Science of the Inconceivable
• The Human Future: Upgrade or Replacement?
• On Eating Animals
• Is There Room for Nontheists at Interfaith Services?
• Why We Allow the Destruction of Our Planet
• Faitheist, Courage, and Keeping Up with the Johnsons’ Eleven Faith Traditions
• Women in Secularism, Affirmative Action, and “Lowering the Bar”
• High-Stakes Test
• Where the Conflict Really Lies: Science, Religion, and Naturalism
• The Bonobo and the Atheist: In Search of Humanism Among the Primates
• Icarus of Brooklyn: A Spiritual Quest Gone Wrong
• How to Build an Android: The True Story of Philip K. Dick’s Robotic Resurrection
• Extreme Whether

May / June 2013

• EDITOR’S NOTE
• Free Speech Aflame: The Humanist Interview with Greg Lukianoff
• Not a Gentleman but a Scholar: Unsexing the Hallowed Halls of Academia
• Cheating Students: How Our Schools Fail the Humanistic Vision of Education
• Leading by Example: A Conversation with AHA President Rebecca Hale and Humanist Activist Todd Stiefel
• Teach the Children War
• No School Breaks
• Roger Ebert (1942 – 2013)
• Smile, You’re Beautiful
• In Praise of Frivolity
• Awesome Anniversary
• “Science Versus Religion” & “Parable of Food”
• When God Wept
• Joseph Anton: A Memoir
• The Good News Club: The Christian Right’s Stealth Assault on America’s Children

March / April 2013

• EDITOR’S NOTE
• Rethinking Drug Policy Assumptions
• Prohibition & Humanism
• Teaching Criminology to Prison Inmates
• Blasphemy, Free Speech, and Rationalism: An Interview with Sanal Edamaruku
• An Unholy Alliance
• Never a Magic Bullet
• Death & Data
• Prison Piety
• Compassion for the Religious
• The Lives of Others
• Every Day is an Atheist Holiday!
• Fooling Houdini: Magicians, Mentalists, Math Geeks, and the Hidden Powers of the Mind
• Breaking Their Will: Shedding Light on Religious Child Maltreatment
• Kurt Vonnegut: Letters

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