The Humanist Archives

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

November / December 2015

• Please see AHA’s statement on sexual harassment allegations against Dr. Krauss here.
• Humanism, Doubt, and Optimism
• Battlestar Galapagos: Where Are We Going, Where Have We Been, and Are We Alone?
• The Single Greatest, Most Important, Most Influential Invention in the History of Humankind
• The Road to and from Extreme Religious Liberty
• Jesus is a Brand of Jeans
• The Decline of the Western Ethnic State
• Concerning Our Failure to Appreciate the Weather
• I can tell you this: AHA conferences are fun.
• “The Flip Side of Science and Society”
• An Education: Challenging Bigotry in My High School and Beyond
• “Right” Trumps “Religious” in Evangelicals’ Support for The Donald
• Humanism and a Work/Life Balance
• The Last Aloha
• Foragers, Farmers, and Fossil Fuels

September / October 2015

• People see what they want to see. That is, until they see the light.
• Speaking Truth to Humanity
• Strange Bedfellows: Misanthropy, Humanism, & the Many Faces of George Carlin
• Robert Louis Stevenson Says No to Religion
• The Bad Book
• Winning the Right to Say: “I Do!”
• POTUS at the Bully Pulpit
• The Tide of History Flows Left
• Are Nonbelievers More Imaginative? A New Study Suggests They Might Be
• Sharing
• Marriage Equality Is the Law of the Land: So Where Do We Go from Here?
• Starting with the Assumption that I’m Wrong
• Love in a Faithless Marriage
• Shoring Up
• Creating Change through Humanism
• Wages of Rebellion: The Moral Imperative of Revolt
• Go Set a Watchman

July / August 2015

• Giving people room to respond to the fire of their own truth is a wholly humanist act.
• Uncertain Humanism and the Water of Whiteness
• Outlaw Humanism
• Do All Black Lives Matter?
• Confronting Racism: Don’ts & Dos for Humanists
• Pathologies of Power
• Why Are So Many Unarmed Black Americans Killed by the Police?
• Your Argument Is Invalid—Because It’s Not Very Good
• The Part about Black Lives Mattering Where White People Shut Up and Listen
• Proposing an Objective, Godless Basis for Morality
• The Steal
• The Meaning of Human Existence
• One Nation Under God: How Corporate America Invented Christian America
• Alpha God: The Psychology of Religious Violence and Oppression
• Stephen Crane: A Life of Fire

May / June 2015

• Once you commit to being yourself, then change can happen.
• Smart Thinking
• The Humanist Interview with Naomi Oreskes
• Film Review: Merchants of Doubt
• Out of Place
• Self-Management & Recovery Training
• Whose Pleasure? Whose Pain? Applying the Hedonic Calculus to Public Policy
• Who Says Body Painting and Lingerie Parties Aren’t Divine?
• Canticle of Midnights
• Twelve Steps to Nowhere?
• Should We Care What Other People Think?
• Chasing the Scream: The First and Last Days of the War on Drugs
• How “God” Works
• The Culinary Imagination
• Does Altruism Exist?

March / April 2015

• We cannot just “be Charlie.”
• Terror in Paris
• Beyond Gods and Monsters—Sculpting a New Norm of Loyalty
• A Humanist Economics
• The Humanist Interview with Ryan J. Bell
• Is Islam Violent? The Answer Isn’t as Simple as Many Think
• Religious Nationalism
• Egyptian Atheist Gets Prison for Facebook Posts
• I Met God, and S/He’s a Cultural Construct
• The Right to Be Rude
• New Thoughts on Atheist Anger, and the Difference between Peace and Complacency
• When Humanism Is Attacked, Have Courage
• Unequal Parts
• The Art of Tactful Candor
• What About Me?: The Struggle for Identity in a Market-Based Society
• Predator: The Secret Origins of the Drone Revolution