The Humanist Archives

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

January / February 2012

• Editor’s Note
• The Humanist Interview with Clinical Psychologist Leon F. Seltzer
• Corporations or People? Restoring the Common Good
• Moving from a War Economy to a Peace Economy
• An Insider’s View from Occupy Oakland
• What Exactly Does the Occupy Movement Want?
• Tents or Tea?
• By the People, for the People
• Why Aren’t More Kids Celebrating Darwin Day?
• A Dangerous Groundswell
• What about Hope?
• Seven Things to Avoid When Talking to Strangers about Humanism
• Stuck in the Belly of the Beast: My Trip to the Values Voter Summit
• Candace Gingrich-Jones (1966-present)
• The Leftovers
• Less Than Human: Why We Demean, Enslave, and Exterminate Others

November / December 2011

• Editor’s Note
• All Is Calm, All Is Bright
• The Body Business
• Biblical Scholarship and the Right to Know
• A Confraternity of the Fatherless
• Terra Instabilis
• Will the Great Corrupters Please Rise
• POETRY: “On the Death of a Soldier” & “Elegies for my Father”
• Among the Truthers: A Journey Through America’s Growing Conspiracist Underground