The Humanist Archives

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

January / February 2017

• Why Is This Starting to Sound Like “The Twelve Days of a Plutocratic Christmas”?
• Make America Kind Again
• Who Will We Speak For? Humanism’s Role in Defending Human Rights and Civil Liberties
• An Action List for the (Un)Faithful
• Opiate of the Masses: What’s Really Driving America’s Prescription Drug Epidemic
• Standing with Standing Rock: My Humanism Won’t Let Me Stay Silent
• The Common Sense of Oklahomans
• Segregation Now and Forever: Betsy DeVos and the Looting of Public Education
• Want to Survive the Next Four Years? First Step: Open Your Mouth
• Resist
• My Longest Day
• Bob Dylan, Nobel Laureate
• The Virtue of Doing Less: Bertrand Russell’s Idleness
• Leonardo Flies Home
• AT WINTER
• Nutshell
• His Porn, Her Pain: Confronting America’s PornPanic With Honest Talk About Sex
• The Story of Reason in Islam

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