The Humanist Archives

November / December 2018

• We’ve all got to be winners—not a bad humanist slogan.
• The Ending Needs Work: Humanists Can Lead on End-of-Life Decisions
• Speaking as an Elder about Our Energy Future
• Because I Want Us to Do Better
• Parodies of Power: Why Satire Is Needed Now More Than Ever
• About a Boy: My Transition from Religion and the Trauma It Inflicts
• The Universal Declaration of Human Rights Turns Seventy
• Support the Rule of Law, Not Autocracy
• Voters Ready for Nonreligious Candidates
• CHURCH & STATE | Values Void: How the Religious Right Learned to Love Sex Offenders
• HUMANISM 101 | Racism by Numbers and the Battle Ahead
• PHILOSOPHICALLY SPEAKING | Life’s a Bitch: An Atheistic Theology of Grace
• INSIDE THE WALLS | By Any Other Name
• FIRST PERSON | The Power of Burning Man
• HUMANIST DILEMMA | I’d Rather Help Animals than People
• The Prisoner’s Lament
• How to Change Your Mind: What the New Science of Psychedelics Teaches Us About Consciousness, Dying, Addiction, Depression, and Transcendence
• Uncle George & Me: Two Southern Families Confront a Shared Legacy of Slavery

September / October 2018

• If the enrichment of humanity is our project, tighter bonds and bigger gifts may be the key.
• Natural Disasters & the Humanist Response
• As the Christian Church Crumbles, is Humanism Ready to Step Up?
• Faith and Faithlessness by Generation: The Decline and Rise are Real
• A New Vision for Secular Transcendence
• Exorcising the Ghosts of the Sixties
• Artificial Stupidity
• A Religious Blitz on Our Government
• HUMANIST PROFILE | Robert Redford
• The One-Way Quest
• CHURCH & STATE | The Kavanaugh Nomination: How Screwed Are We?
• FIRST PERSON | When Strangers Ask Me
• INSIDE THE WALLS | Prisoners Are Stores of Human Potential
• Tyrant: Shakespeare on Politics

July / August 2018

• I’ll continue to affirm that this was a failure of the editor.
• Five Fierce Humanists: Unapologetically Black Women Beyond Belief
• White Privilege and Humanist Leadership
• Dance with the Donald
• Theocratic Mercenary Erik Prince and the Christian Right
• The Humanist Interview with Greg Epstein
• Target Practice
• Respecting Religion, Rejecting Discrimination
• Golden’s Rule/Godwin’s Law
• Why “Five Fierce Humanists”?
• Betsy DeVos Wants You to Pay for Someone Else’s Religion
• Beethoven and His Ninth Symphony
• Threads of Humanist History
• A New Day
• A Pervasive Impression of Our Depravity: William T. Vollman’s Carbon Ideologies
• Leonardo da Vinci

May / June 2018

• It’s time to learn a thing or two about consent.
• Checking Humanism’s Privilege and Pulse
• #WeToo?
• Hard to Believe
• Adrift At Sea
• Changing 
Times in 
America’s 
Execution 
Capital
• Good or Bad to the Bone?
• What Consent Means and How to Teach It
• The Fallacy of the Armed Populace as Deterrent
• after the dream act is revoked
• Are We Headed for One Christian Nation under Trump?
• Skepticism—and What It Means to Believe Accusers
• Concerning Bullies
• Escaping the God-Zombies
• It’s Our Turn
• Secularism: Politics, Religion, and Freedom
• Women v. Religion: The Case against Faith—and for Freedom

March / April 2018

• Countering frustration with enlightenment now
• Enlightenment Wow: The Humanist Interview with Steven Pinker
• Fighting Post-Truth
• It’s Long Been a Man’s World. Can Women Save It?
• Paranoia and the Pursuit of Happiness
• Finding Clara Barton
• If the Second Amendment Was Meant for Genocide, Is It Sacred?
• Controlling Bodies: An Interview with Andrea J. Ritchie
• Not-So-Civil Religion: The Long-Running Fraud of “Ceremonial Deism”
• Pop Culture and Suspension of Disbelief: The Good Place
• What Will Be Human in the Future?
• Little Hell on the Prairie
• Virtual Reality and Empathy
• Objection! The Word of God Doesn’t Belong in a Courtroom
• RITUAL
• How to Be a Stoic: Using Ancient Philosophy to Live a Modern Life
• An Organized Panic

January / February 2018

• Goodness trumped racism in Alabama. Goodness trumped homophobia and theocracy. And yes, it trumped sexism and sexual predation.
• The Monster Hijacking Human Minds
• Call in the Robocops
• How the Loss of Critical Reasoning is Harming America
• The Making of a Modern Pilgrim
• Seven Days in Cuba
• On Policies and Purple
• CNN and Trump: A Noxious Marriage
• Humanist Goals
• Can American Democracy Survive Trump’s Reign of Lies?
• Human Value and the Puritan Work Ethic
• The Personal Geography of Deconversion
• I Can’t Breathe: A Killing on Bay Street
• An Atheist Stranger in a Strange Religious Land: Selected Writings from the Bible Belt