Rules Are for Schmucks: Drug Test Donald Trump

Donald Trump is not mentally ill. He made a ton of money in a tough, competitive business. His instincts about the American electorate last year confounded the experts. I don’t even disagree with him on... Read More
Rules Are for Schmucks: The Rodney Dangerfield of Religions

This month’s Atlantic features an article about the failure of any religion outside the “Big Four” (Hinduism, Buddhism, Christianity, and Islam) to gain substantial traction over the last thousand years. As usual, humanism gets no... Read More
Rules Are for Schmucks: Trump in Poland

Our beleaguered president delivered a major speech in Poland last month. In it, he repeatedly lumped Poland and the United States together under the banner of “the West” and “our civilization,” maintaining that both need... Read More
Rules Are for Schmucks: Pushing Religion in School

Your ten-year-old arrives home from school one afternoon breathless with excitement about the new social studies unit for next term. They’re going to be learning all about narcotics! Different classes and homework assignments will focus... Read More
Rules Are for Schmucks: Time to Amend the Constitution

Some secular analysts of the Supreme Court’s landmark Trinity Lutheran decision, including here at TheHumanist.com, are taking a balanced, wait-and-see approach to its impact. “Don’t plan a funeral dirge for the Blaine Amendments yet,” advises... Read More
Rules Are for Schmucks: The End of Law in Arkansas

Should judges be impartial? Or should defendants and victims be forced to endure a mockery of a trial conducted by a judge who’s already made up his or her mind on key elements of the... Read More
Rules Are for Schmucks: Is St. Louis “Orwellian”?

Dan, a grocery clerk, tells his boss he needs to take a day off because he’s having a vasectomy. His boss replies, “Take the rest of your life off—you’re fired.” Amy asks her landlord if... Read More