The Humanist Archives

Winter 2021

• Commentary from Roy Speckhardt, AHA Executive Director
• Joe Biden: The Weathervane and the Storm
• Dogmatic Delusions
• The Relationship of Artificial Intelligence and Religion to Secular Morality
• Live a Happier Life with a Free Mind
• Humanist-Led Efforts to Abolish Blasphemy Laws Get Results in Congress
• Nonreligious Americans: the Key Demographic That No One Is Talking About
• CHURCH & STATE | The Church-State Wall Is Battered after Four Years of Trump. Let the Repair Work Begin.
• HUMANISM 101 | We Will Get Through This
• Three Poems by Alan Cohen
• The Coming Good Society

November / December 2020

• It’s Been Real
• Humanist in the House
• The Necessary Discomfort of Progress
• Beyond European Colonialism: An Interview with Jé Hooper and David Breeden
• Notoriously Humanistic: In Praise of Ruth Bader Ginsburg’s Jurisprudence
• CHURCH & STATE | Of Socks and Separation: Engagement Is Key to Rebuilding the Wall
• INSIDE THE WALLS | Down and Out—Expanding Our Thinking to Survive
• Veritas: A Harvard Professor, a Con Man and the Gospel of Jesus’s Wife
• Evil Geniuses: The Unmaking of America: A Recent History
• The Goodness Paradox: The Strange Relationship Between Virtue and Violence in Human Evolution

September / October 2020

• Power of a Distinctly White Hue
• A Payout for All Their Houses
• Racist Too Long: Measuring White Christianity
• Meeting the Scourge: COVID-19 Responsibility, Ethics, and Morality
• A Centennial to Reckon With: Honoring Black Suffragists
• CHURCH & STATE | The Supreme Court Says You Can Be Forced to Support Religion
• FIRST PERSON | Atheism and the Solitary Man
• Until the End of Time: Mind, Matter, and Our Search for Meaning in an Evolving Universe
• Apeirogon

July / August 2020

• Defund, Reallocate, Reshape, Humanize
• What a Tiny Virus Can Teach Us
• Beyond the Battlefield
• He Isn’t Big on Reform, He’s Big on Change: The Humanist Interview with Ashton Woods
• The White Imagination Must Be Bound
• Secular America Takes Action Today, So They Can Vote Tomorrow
• CHURCH & STATE | The Coronavirus Pandemic: Some Lessons I’ve Learned
• INSIDE THE WALLS | Remember the Dakotas
• What Would a Humanist Do? Thrilled about Fauci’s Humanism, Scared of Conservative Backlash
• Poetry
• Richard Hofstadter: Anti-Intellectualism in American Life, The Paranoid Style in American Politics, Uncollected Essays 1956–1965

May / June 2020

• Health and Humanism
• Inspiration during a Quarantine
• Why Read?
• Philosophy in a Time of Pandemic
• Coronavirus Exposes Racial Disparities
• Fostering Discrimination: Will SCOTUS Allow Religion to Rule in Foster Care Placement?
• 320 Miles: Will the Conservative Court Take Abortion Restrictions Too Far?
• CHURCH & STATE | In the Face of a Deadly Global Pandemic, the Government Can Ban Large Gather-ings—Even Religious Ones
• HUMANISM & THE ARTS | The American Sound of Hope: George Gershwin’s Rhapsody in Blue
• FIRST PERSON | The Other Self
• How to Live a Good Life: A Guide to Choosing Your Personal Philosophy
• For Small Creatures Such as We: Rituals for Finding Meaning in Our Unlikely World
• Race in a Godless World: Atheism, Race, and Civilization, 1850–1914

March / April 2020

• In Times of Rampant Lies, Small Steps toward Truth Matter Most
• Let’s Be Blunt: Cannabis Research Isn’t Where It Should Be
• The New “Roaring” Twenties
• I Testify: Congress Must Push for the Repeal of Blasphemy Laws Abroad
• American Jurisprudence on Trial
• Peace, Love, and Mathiness: Considering Bertrand Russell’s Relevance
• Spirit of the Law: Keeping Justice Alive in Red States
• Elevator Protest: The Wheels of Justice Grind Too Slowly for These New Yorkers
• CHURCH & STATE | Our Constitution Lacks a School Prayer Amendment—For That, You Can Thank These Champions
• SCIENCE WATCH | Why #whyteachevolution?
• PHILOSOPHICALLY SPEAKING | Humans Becoming Gods—or Chips in a Cosmic Computer?
• FIRST PERSON | The Priest Who Made Me an Atheist
• HUMANIST DILEMMA | Shall I Donate to the Most Downtrodden—Or to What I Love?
• The Power Worshippers: Inside the Dangerous Rise of Religious Nationalism
• Unbelievers: An Emotional History of Doubt
• The Selected Letters of Ralph Ellison