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The HUMANIST Interview with Rebecca Newberger Goldstein

  • by: Jennifer Bardi
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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...]

Published in the May / June 2010 Humanist
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One Nation Under the Constitution: Reason, Politics, and Morality in the New Century

  • by: Jamie Raskin
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Maryland State Senator Jamie Raskin, an attorney and professor of constitutional law who has earned national recognition as a civil rights and civil liberties advocate, was honored by the American Humanist Association on Friday, June 6, 2008, with its Distinguished [Read More...]

Published in the November / December 2008 Humanist
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What Distracts Us from Impeachment?

  • by: David Swanson
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In July 2007 a polling company called American Research Group conducted the first and only poll asking whether the American public wants to impeach Vice President Dick Cheney. Fifty-four percent said yes. Forty percent said no. Those are remarkable numbers [Read More...]

Published in the November / December 2007 Humanist
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Stark’s Reason: How a California Congressman Became the Most Honest Person in Politics

  • by: Jennifer Bardi with Fred Edwords
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We have officially entered the presidential campaign season as details of candidates’ personal histories and present lives come to the fore. In mid-March historians unearthed the Irish roots of presidential candidate Barack Obama (D-IL), identifying his great-great-great-grandfather on his mother’s [Read More...]

Published in the May / June 2007 Humanist
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