May / June 2010

ISSUE AT HAND

by: Jennifer Bardi
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UP FRONT

A Questionable Pro-Choice Strategy (in 140 Characters or Less)

by: Karen Frantz
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Features:

Christians, Homosexuality, and the Same-Sex Marriage Question

by: John Zerilli

Humanity has a curious relationship with sex. It obviously enjoys it—there are nearly seven billion people in the world and not all that output could be the fruit of duty. Yet, for a practice so widespread and frequent, its morality [Read More...]

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Strategies for Fighting Blasphemy Laws in a Post-Tolerant World

by: Luis Granados

The new decade was ushered in by a disturbing headline: “Ireland’s New Blasphemy Law Goes into Effect.” New blasphemy law? Don’t those belong in some earlier century? The unfortunate answer is no—blasphemy laws are making a comeback, and not just [Read More...]

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One Hot Book: Richard Seaver & The Public Burning’s Wild Ride

by: Robert Coover

The publication of Robert Coover’s audacious 1977 novel, The Public Burning, almost never happened. The book uses the circumstances surrounding the 1953 execution of Julius and Ethel Rosenberg (sentenced to death for allegedly providing the Soviet Union with details of [Read More...]

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The HUMANIST Interview with Rebecca Newberger Goldstein

by: Jennifer Bardi

Author and philosopher Rebecca Newberger Goldstein’s new novel, 36 Arguments for the Existence of God: A Work of Fiction (Pantheon, 2010), follows the past and present of one Cass Seltzer, a professor of the philosophy of religion who Time magazine [Read More...]

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SCIENCE WATCH

Children of the CHON: What We Know about Genesis

by: Bryan Zepp Jamieson
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HUMANISM AND THE ARTS


Everything Matters: Poetry and the Police Department

by: Martin Steingesser
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HUMANISM 101


The Mystery of Evil and Suffering

by: Bernard Leikind
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POETRY


The Sky, Full of Birds

by: Martin Steingesser
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BOOK REVIEW

A Fiery Peace in a Cold War: Bernard Schriever and the Ultimate Weapon By Neil Sheehan

Review by: Howard Schneider
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