The Humanist Archives

May / June 2014

• Humanism isn’t absolute but we can still ask: How can humanists best comport themselves?
• Paths to People
• The Benefit Corporation
• Papal Economics
• The Materialist in Her Bathtub
• Cosmopolitanism & Humanism
• The Real Hobby Lobby Problem
• Who Wants to Be a Rocket Scientist? Race, Gender, and the STEM Divide
• CELEBRANT
• A Charter for Controversy?
• Imposter Syndrome, and What It Means to Be an Adult
• The Danger of Scientism
• The End of Polite Conversation?
• Stay: A History of Suicide and the Philosophies Against It
• Caught in the Pulpit: Leaving Belief Behind
• Writing God’s Obituary: How a Good Methodist Became a Better Atheist

March / April 2014

• Yes, climate change is a humanist issue. It’s also a tough story to sell.
• A Redaction of Heroism
• Kurt Vonnegut Survives Humanity
• A Humanist in Action
• Can Fracking Lead the Way To Clean Energy?
• Say What? The End of Net Neutrality and a Globalization Treaty Threaten Minority Speech
• Combating Thought Pollution
• Rights Or Restrictions?
• Coming Out Godless, and Not Assuming the Worst
• Watching Fox News at the VA Hospital
• The Dominionists are Coming
• The Tomb of Jesus and His Family?
• Christian Nation
• Her

January / February 2014

• Are atheism & spirituality mutually exclusive?
• 2013 Humanist PHOTO CONTEST Winners
• An All-Natural Faith
• The Church of the Greater Solipsism
• The Humanist Interview with Hemley Gonzalez
• The Oprah-Nyad Affair
• Religion, Humanism, and a Boy/Man in the Middle
• Grinch or Greater Good
• Don’t Tear Down This Wall
• Belief in the Almighty Dollar: Why We Need an Atheist PAC
• Autism, Atheism, and the Soul
• Tenured Professors All
• Humanist Performance Anxiety
• Whose Fault Is the Human Condition?
• Religion in America: Crisis of Faith or Crisis in Faith?
• Coffee and Gunpowder
• Writing on the Wall: Social Media—The First 2,000 Years
• Religion Without God

November / December 2013

• Happy Humanism, Happy Holidays
• EDITOR’S NOTE
• Savage Humanist
• Laboring in the Atheistical Vineyards
• Firebrands, Diplomats, and Bedfellows
• Silver Lining in the Big Tent
• For Saying It
• For Which It Stands
• I Don’t Pledge Allegiance (to Any Flag)
• Christmas Shopping
• Motherless Child
• Blowing It
• Mind is Matter
• Holiday Hassles
• Intuition Pumps and Other Tools for Thinking
• The Religion Virus: Why We Believe in God

September / October 2013

• EDITOR’S NOTE
• Preaching to the Nones
• Regaining Balance
• The End
• Love & Death
• Waiting Around to Die
• Normal Aging or Disease? The Demarcation Fades
• Terminal Dogma
• Obama’s Escalating War on Freedom of the Press
• A Most Basic Human Right
• On Being Honored for Having Gotten Cancer
• Hysteria Alert
• Godless Americana: Race and Religious Rebels
• Becoming More Fully Human: Religious Humanism as a Way of Life

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