The Humanist Archives

May / June 2010

• Christians, Homosexuality, and the Same-Sex Marriage Question
• Strategies for Fighting Blasphemy Laws in a Post-Tolerant World
• One Hot Book: Richard Seaver & The Public Burning’s Wild Ride
• The HUMANIST Interview with Rebecca Newberger Goldstein
• A Questionable Pro-Choice Strategy (in 140 Characters or Less)
• The Sky, Full of Birds
• The Mystery of Evil and Suffering
• Everything Matters: Poetry and the Police Department
• Children of the CHON: What We Know about Genesis
• ISSUE AT HAND
• A Fiery Peace in a Cold War: Bernard Schriever and the Ultimate Weapon

March / April 2010

• Lonesome No More! Kurt Vonnegut’s Freethinking Heritage
• Praying for Sex
• No Agenda? A Humanist View of Justice Scalia
• No, We’re Not a Broken People
• Humanists in Haiti
• Defusing the Neuron Bomb
• HOWARD ZINN (1922-2010)
• Trailblazers Wanted: Perfection Not Required
• Of Declarations and Tea Parties: A New Birth for the Religious Right?
• THE ISSUE AT HAND

January / February 2010

• Apex or Ex-Ape?
• Uncertainty in Science: It’s a Feature, Not a Bug
• The HUMANIST Interview with Gore Vidal
• Coats before Christmas
• Naked Pumpkins, Sex Offenders, and Terrorists
• The Poison Cure
• Missing Stories from the Streets: Why Weren’t the Pittsburgh G-20 Protests Better Covered?
• No License to Promote Religion: S.C. Judge Nixes Christian Auto Tag
• THE ISSUE AT HAND
• Society without God: What the Least Religious Nations Can Tell Us about Contentment
• The Letter from Death

November / December 2009

• China’s Problem Children: Migrant Labor in the World’s Factory
• The Dog Delusion
• Memoirs of a Spiritual Refugee
• Comes a Horseman
• Darwin Drama Raises Questions for Both Sides
• The Army Experience Center’s Bad Experience: Turns out Training Kids to Kill Not Popular with Public
• FERTILE EARTH
• Book Excerpt: GOOD WITHOUT GOD

September / October 2009

• THE ISSUE AT HAND
• Musings of a Solo-ist Astrophysicist
• The HUMANIST Interview with Neil deGrasse Tyson
• Baptism in Broad-mindedness: Saving Future Teachers from Creationism
• An “Eco” Systems Approach: Reproductive Rights Go Green
• Humanism and the Burqa Bugaboo
• Confessions of a Prayer-Struck Atheist
• An Edible History of Humanity

July / August 2009

• THE ISSUE AT HAND
• Star Trek Made Me an Atheist
• Counterfeiting Tradition
• Hidden from History
• Torture Probe: Who’s Being Protected under the Searing Bright Light?
• Nothing Sacred: What We Talk about When We Talk about Torture
• If English Was Good Enough for Jesus…
• Thomas Paine, 1737-1809
• Karma, Dharma, Pudding & Pie