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 | American Grace: How Religion Divides and Unites UsAmerican religion is a conundrum. Americans manage to combine deep religious devotion with wide religious diversity, all the while remaining remarkably tolerant of each other. What factors have shaped the current religious landscape in the United States? What characteristics do [Read More...]
Published in the May / June 2011 Humanist
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 | Deadly Spin: An Insurance Company Insider Speaks Out on How Corporate PR is Killing Health Care and Deceiving AmericansWendell Potter begins his book, Deadly Spin, with a startling admission. After noting that “about 45,000 people die in America every year because they have no health Insurance,” he confesses to being “partly responsible for some of the deaths that [Read More...]
Published in the March / April 2011 Humanist
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 | SPECIAL BOOK EXCERPT: War is A Lie“There has probably never been a war that hasn’t been explained as an absolutely necessary, inevitable, and unavoidable last resort.”
Published in the March / April 2011 Humanist
Tagged anthropology, books, global peace index, hunter-gatherer, pacifism, peace, violence, war, war is a lie, warfare, warrior Leave a comment |
 | Speaking of SexThe psychologist and co-author of Sex at Dawn: The Prehistoric Origins of Modern Sexuality looks at what the evidence says about humans’ “natural” state.
Published in the March / April 2011 Humanist
Tagged aggression, bonobo, bonobos, books, chimp, chimpanzee, gender, interview, lgbt, matriarchy, primates, primatology, sex, sexuality, violence Leave a comment |
 | The State of Sex: Tourism, Sex, and Sin in the New American HeartlandSex sells. Or, perhaps it would be more accurate to say that sex sells things. The saturation of our society with sex and sexuality is more a marketing tool than a wholesale breakdown in “family values” that the religious right [Read More...]
Published in the September / October 2010 Humanist
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 | A Fiery Peace in a Cold War: Bernard Schriever and the Ultimate WeaponA Fiery Peace in a Cold War is the biography of a man, Bernard A. Schriever, who has profoundly affected the United States and the rest of the world since the early 1950s (he was the “Father of the Air [Read More...]
Published in the May / June 2010 Humanist
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 | Society without God: What the Least Religious Nations Can Tell Us about ContentmentAs the tide of secular self-awareness and public discussion of nonbelief rises, Phil Zuckerman’s latest book, Society without God, is not only a major contribution to the study of irreligion and religion today, it is an eye-opener for anyone who [Read More...]
Published in the January / February 2010 Humanist
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 | The Letter from DeathFOREWORD by Howard Zinn Lillian Moats gives us, in The Letter from Death, a brilliant and strikingly original work of the imagination, drawing both on biblical scholarship and contemporary military doctrine, infused with wit and irony, grounded in a profound [Read More...]
Published in the January / February 2010 Humanist
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