The Humanist Archives

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

January / February 2015

• A Watershed Moment for Death with Dignity
• Savior? Shaman? Myth? Ink Blot?
• Getting Humanism Right-Side Up
• BOOK EXCERPT: “The Boomer Factor” from Fighting Back the Right
• Is Dying a Pro-Choice Issue?
• The Interstellar Stakes Against God
• Who Deserves Compassion?
• Military Maneuvers
• Dealing with Death in an Unjust World
• Tacos & Tolerance
• Think Denmark
• YES AND MAYBE
• The Children Act
• Tending the Epicurean Garden
• Choosing Peace

November / December 2014

• “Always a godfather, never a god.”
• How to Achieve Equality? Talk to Your Members of Congress!
• What I Like about the Expansion of the Humanist Movement
• Into the Fold of Humanism
• Digging in the Ideological Garden
• Excerpts from Awardees Jessica Valenti and Steve Rade
• ISIS and Khorasan
• Waging War vs. Keeping the Peace
• Religion and Politics
• The Pros and Cons of Caring Deeply about Others’ Suffering
• Not so Fast
• Determinism, Free Will, and Moral Responsibility
• The Sea Approaches
• Taking Liberties: Why Religious Freedom Doesn’t Give You the Right to Tell Other People What to Do
• Worth Fighting For: An Army Ranger’s Journey Out of the Military and Across America
• The Labyrinth: God, Darwin, and the Meaning of Life

September / October 2014

• Will we become more like machines or will they become more like us?
• Defendant without a Prayer
• The Machinery of Moral Progress: An Interview with Rebecca Newberger Goldstein
• Moving Past a Warm-Up: Is Action to Mitigate Climate Change Possible Today?
• Can Humanism Survive the Coming Transhumanist Revolution?
• In Need of a Doorstop
• And Justice for Nones
• Birth Control Bungle: The Supreme Court’s Appalling Ruling on Access to Contraceptives
• Trans People and Basic Human Respect
• Jewish Atheists and Koufax Jews
• A Different Fight for Marriage Equality
• SLAVERY INC. The Untold Story of International Sex Trafficking
• PLATO AT THE GOOGLEPLEX: Why Philosophy Won’t Go Away

July / August 2014

• Think you’re not going anywhere when you die?
• A Green Hereafter
• Skeptics Who See Things: The Curious Visions of Mark Twain and Barbara Ehrenreich
• Ethical Education Starts with Curiosity: An Interview with Dale McGowan
• Knowledge is Power
• Creativity: Then and Forever
• Why Justices Kagan and Breyer Didn’t Go Far Enough
• Robo-Morality: Can philosophers program ethical codes into robots?
• The Cyclist
• Prayer by Popular Vote?
• How Humanism Helps With Depression–Except When It Doesn’t
• Our Pragmatist Tradition
• Rain Mosaic & Impressions of a Garden Hose
• Astoria: John Jacob Astor and Thomas Jefferson’s Lost Pacific Empire
• Big Gods: How Religion Transformed Cooperation and Conflict