The Humanist Archives

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

November / December 2017

• The Time Is Ripe for Some Good Old Humanist Inspiration
• Building Humanism, Busting Myth and Privilege
• Saving the Deep Blue Yonder
• Civil Rights and Our Nation’s Conscience
• In Bed With the Humanists
• Smile, There is No Hell (and Other Humanist Wisdom)
• Remembering the Elaine Massacre
• Take a Knee for Freedom of Religion
• When Religious Freedom Is a Recipe for Discrimination
• History Has its Eyes on Us
• A Warm Embrace
• POETRY: The sample is shining
• A Crack in Creation: Gene Editing and the Unthinkable Power to Control Evolution
• Cigarettes & Wine
• Fantasyland: How America Went Haywire: A 500-Year History

September / October 2017

• We Must Turn to Action to Define our Humanism
• Making Good: Humanist Philanthropy and the Duty to Give
• How Poverty Kills Wonder and What We Can Do About It
• Gamm On: The Humanist Interview with Philanthropist Gordon Gamm
• Cherri Pitts: A Rose Amongst San Antonio’s STARs
• Breaking Camp
• Conservation Lessons from a Still-Wild River
• The Sanctity of Human Life Act
• Church, State, and Taxpayer Support
• Distractions
• Poetry & Paint
• What’s in the Name? All of Us
• Rehabilitation Through Humansim
• Why I Left, Why I Stayed: Conversations on Christianity Between an Evangelical Father and His Humanist Son
• Kill All Normies: Online Culture Wars from 4Chan and Tumblr to Trump and the Alt-Right

July / August 2017

• Humanist Sexploration
• The Future of Sex
• Tough Fluidity
• Everything You Know about Sex Is Wrong
• Belief in a Shared Future
• Reason in Bronze
• Terror’s Afterlife
• Choosing Your Fight
• What’s behind the New Attack on Birth Control?
• On Demonstrations and Virtue Signaling
• Sex: Our Wonderful Gift
• Why Write about History?
• Sexual Relativity and Gender Revolution
• Made in China
• When Colorblindness Isn’t the Answer: Humanism and the Challenge of Race
• Jesus and Magdalene

May / June 2017

• I Wanted to Ask Secretary DeVos about College and Heaven
• Christian Hegemony in the Age of Trump
• Can Bacteria Help Us Understand Religion?
• Humanism and the Challenge of Privilege
• Ask What You Can Do for Your Climate
• Evolution’s Error: How Human Nature Went Awry
• Prepare to March for Science and the Climate
• Live Well, Die Well: Does Neil Gorsuch Understand Epicurus?
• The Great “Persecution of Christians” Myth
• GOP Healthcare Failure: Resistance Is Still Not Futile
• Let’s Celebrate!
• It Was Fifty Years Ago Today …
• I’m Doing My Part, Are You?
• A Ladder Is to Climb
• Life Without a Spine
• Integers
• To Be a Machine: Adventures Among Cyborgs, Utopians, Hackers, and the Futurists Solving the Modest Problem of Death
• Willoughbyland: England’s Lost Colony
• The Book That Changed America: How Darwin’s Theory of Evolution Ignited a Nation

March / April 2017

• Fasten Your Seatbelts, It’s Going to be a Trumpy Ride
• Towards a Post-Lies Future
• The New Secular Moment
• Fundamentalism on Trial
• The Arts for Humanists
• The Speed of Thought
• Save Our Science, Save Our Planet
• Finding Trump’s Refugee Policy
• Land of Confusion: The Religious Right, Trump, and “Post-Truth” America
• What Can We Do?
• Behaviorism
• Remaking Ourselves
• Calendrical Reform
• Village Atheists: How America’s Unbelievers Made Their Way in a Godly Nation
• Women Beyond Belief: Discovering Life without Religion
• The Kingstone Bible