Combating Thought Pollution The case for scientific literacy

I’ve recently found myself in a bit of a verbal joust with a columnist in my local newspaper’s conservative-leaning op-ed pages. He, like so many others of his ideological bent, doesn’t believe global warming is... Read More

Grinch or Greater Good The War on the Humanist Image

As the holiday season got into full swing, the American Humanist Association (AHA) took some heat from the religious right for blocking a public school from participating in Operation Christmas Child, which distributes shoeboxes containing... Read More

Don’t Tear Down This Wall

A 2012 Gallup poll showed only 54 percent of U.S. citizens would be willing to vote for a well-qualified presidential candidate if that person happened to be an atheist. For women and African-American candidates, it’s... Read More

For Which It Stands Secular patriots want to be honest when they recite the Pledge of Allegiance

When Congress inserted the words “under God” into the Pledge of Allegiance in 1954, its intent was clear: to strike “at the philosophical roots of communism, atheism, and materialism.” So declared the sponsor of the... Read More