The Humanist Archives

November / December 2016

• It makes you proud to be a humanist.
• Science & Religion in the Rough
• Active Duty: My Dedication to Liberty, Justice, and an End to Wars
• A Bridge Supreme: Connecting Humanism to a Liberal, Loving Christianity
• I Am What I Am, and Other Truths
• Speeches from Awardees Elizabeth Loftus and John de Lancie
• The Case for Re-Enfranchisement
• Blasphemy Laws Attack Free Expression—
Can Freethought Hit Back?
• No Moore: Alabama Is Finally Rid of the Worst Judge in America
• Niki Massey, and Why Some Humanist Voices Don’t Get Heard
• Hope
• A Thanksgiving Prayer
• The Gene: An Intimate History

September / October 2016

• The young nones: unstereotypical and alright
• To Be Young, Gifted, Secular, and Black
• The Kids Are Alright: Four Teens on Growing Up Humanist
• Islam’s Ex Factor: An Interview with Sarah Haider and Muhammad Syed
• The Power of Humanist Organizing in Germany: An Interview with Frieder Otto Wolf
• “It’s Completely Okay to Be Secular”: Teen Atheist Activist Cidney Fisk Encourages Her Peers to Speak Up
• Bringing Visibility to Nonreligious Voters
• The Call of the Rewild
• Securing the Wall: Church-State Separation and Youth Activism in America
• Ageism Is Wasted on the Young and Old
• Catch-22nd Symphony: The Paradox of the Timeless Doorway
• You Can’t Make Change If You Don’t Show Up
• Concrete Economics: The Hamilton Approach to Economic Growth and Policy
• The Cartoon History of Humanism, Volume One: Antiquity to Enlightenment
• Viking Economics: How the Scandinavians Got It Right—and How We Can, Too
• Last Leper in the Colony: An Atheist Runs for Congress in the Bible Belt

July / August 2016

• I Say We All Graduate
• Humanity’s Last Stand
• Deep Storage and Greener Oil: An Interview with Sally Benson
• Rescuing Memory: the Humanist Interview with Noam Chomsky
• How to Be a Wise Guy or a Wise Girl
• Positive Atheism
• Ban Cisgender White Men From Public Bathrooms: A Modest Proposal
• What is a Global Citizenry, and Can It Save Us?
• My Father Asks Me To Go To Church
• Checking the Privilege of Religious Groups in American Politics
• Secular Grief, and the Loss of Stability and Safety
• Dodging Dr. Death
• Who Comes First, People or the Planet?
• EXCERPT: A Religion Called Love
• The Faith of Christopher Hitchens: The Restless Soul of the World’s Most Notorious Atheist
• Grace Without God: The Search for Meaning, Purpose, and Belonging in a Secular Age
• The Way of the Heathen: Practicing Atheism in Everyday Life

May / June 2016

• What can we say about the 2016 presidential candidates?
• Carnival or Campaign?
• All Right Then, I’ll Go to Hell
• In All the White Spaces
• Why Science Is Not in Conflict with Religion
• 2016 Humanism
• What Does the Boy Scouts-Unitarian Universalists Agreement Mean for Humanists?
• Whose Bodies? Black Lives Matter and the Reproductive Justice Imperative
• Answer Me
• Sincerity Is Nice— But Reasonableness Is Better
• The Orbit: Why Social Justice Atheism Needs Many Homes
• The Signs Are Everywhere
• Believe Racial Justice is Possible
• Don’t Bet on God’s Presidential Picks
• Book of Numbers
• The Evolution of Everything and Ultrasociety

March / April 2016

• Deep ecology, humanism, and the hidden life of trees
• When the Human in Humanism Isn’t Enough
• New Atheism, Meet Existential Risk Studies
• Confronting Whiteness and the Flint Water Crisis
• Book Excerpt: White Nights, Black Paradise
• A Minister’s Lack of Faith Comes Under Fire
• Finding Empathy in the Evolution Debate
• Infected with Dogma: How South America’s Response to the Zika Virus Fails Women
• Born Again
• Will a Legal Clash over Old Auto Tires Run Over the First Amendment?
• Saying the Right Thing, Even in Private
• A New Humanist Take on the Emerging Vocabulary of Romance, Gender, and Sexuality
• 3 Meditations on the Death of My Mother
• Between the World and Me
• White Nights, Black Paradise
• Secular Meditation: 32 Practices for Cultivating Inner Peace, Compassion, and Joy

January / February 2016

• For a new year: kiss someone you love and hug someone who’s different than you.
• Star Turn
• Flourishing in the Company of Like-Minded People
• Humanist Q&A: Steven Pinker & Joyce Carol Oates
• Compelling Optimism
• Book Excerpt: The Great Transition: Shifting from Fossil Fuels to Solar and Wind Energy
• Terror-Go-Round: Breaking the Cycle of Xenophobia
• Why the Humanist Magazine Matters
• How Much Tolerance is Tolerable?
• Humanists and the Rise of “Post-Truth America”
• Subjective Tastes & Character Judgments—Two Great Flavors that Taste Lousy Together
• My Conversion
• The Ultimate Responsibility
• Softball Evangelism
• The Skeletons of Dreams
• Two Years Eight Months and Twenty-Eight Nights
• Apostate! No More Bazoodee: A Grenadian Quest to Think Outside the Box
• Islam and the Future of Tolerance: A Dialogue