The Humanist Archive

	May / June 2013 EDITOR’S NOTE No School Breaks Leading by Example: A Conversation with AHA President Rebecca Hale and Humanist Activist Todd Stiefel Teach the Children War Cheating Students: How Our Schools Fail the Humanistic Vision of Education "Science Versus Religion" & "Parable of Food" Awesome Anniversary In Praise of Frivolity Smile, You’re Beautiful The Good News Club: The Christian Right’s Stealth Assault on America’s Children Joseph Anton: A Memoir Not a Gentleman but a Scholar: Unsexing the Hallowed Halls of Academia Free Speech Aflame: The Humanist Interview with Greg Lukianoff When God Wept Roger Ebert (1942 - 2013)

	March / April 2013 Blasphemy, Free Speech, and Rationalism: An Interview with Sanal Edamaruku Teaching Criminology to Prison Inmates Prohibition & Humanism Rethinking Drug Policy Assumptions Kurt Vonnegut: Letters Breaking Their Will: Shedding Light on Religious Child Maltreatment Fooling Houdini: Magicians, Mentalists, Math Geeks, and the Hidden Powers of the Mind Every Day is an Atheist Holiday! The Lives of Others Compassion for the Religious Prison Piety Death & Data Never a Magic Bullet EDITOR’S NOTE

	January / February 2013 EDITOR'S NOTE Election Reflection: Whither Now, Religious Right? Humanism in a Shitstorm Damned Good Company: Twenty Rebels Who Bucked the God Experts Attack of the Theocrats! How the Religious Right Harms Us All—And What We Can Do About It Embroidering History: An Englishwoman’s Experience as a Humanitarian Aid Volunteer in Post-War Poland, 1924-1925 Beyond the Box Little Room Done In by the Patriot Act Colobus Conundrum Spare a Thought for Philosophy: An Interview with A.C. Grayling With Liberty & Justice for All Speaking Prose All Our Lives Experiments of Living

	November / December 2012 Editor's Note It Can’t All Be True Humanity and the Planet Come First! Truth, Deception, and the Myth of the One-Handed Scientist How I Got into This Room Time to Turn Silence into Activism “Stranger at the Door” Immortality: The Quest to Live Forever and How It Drives Civilization Another Earth Is Freedom a Mistaken Idea? Natural Allies: Humanism and Atheism+ iFantasyAre Tech Giants Monopolizing the Future?

	September / October 2012 Free Will and the Anders Breivik Trial Let’s Deal with It! A Rational Response to Sexual Harassment in Secular Spheres Editor's Note The “Return” of the Welfare Queens: Feminism, Secularism, and Anti-Racism The Humanist Interview with Gloria Steinem A Woman’s Place? The Dearth of Women in the Secular Movement Building Bridges or Blowing Them Up? Secular Americans and the Future of Humanist Activism Interpersonal Dimensions of Humanism Higgsology How Confrontationalism Can Open Doors “The Assistant Professor of Physics” Gore Vidal: 1925-2012 1Flesh: Putting the “Sexy” Back in Abstinence The Feminist Caucus of the American Humanist Association

	July / August 2012 Drones in U.S. Flight Paths: What Could Go Wrong? You’re Addicted to What? The Barton Lies: The Religious Right’s Favorite ‘Historian’ Gets Hit with a Dose of the Truth Tending the Humanist Garden The Social Conquest of Earth The Undead: Organ Harvesting, the Ice-Water Test, Beating-Heart Cadavers—How Medicine is Blurring the Line Between Life and Death Prick the Bubbles, Pass the Mantle: Hitchens as Orwell’s Successor Was Adam Smith a Marxist? Evolution, Humanism, and Conservation: The Humanist Interview with Richard Leakey Nonbeliever Nation: The Rise of Secular Americans What Money Can’t Buy: the Moral Limits of Markets Editor's Note

	May / June 2012 The Humanist Photo Contest Winners Editor's Note Stretching It: An Englishwoman’s Search for American Spirituality Barrier Methods: The Church’s Ceaseless Opposition to Birth Control Unbelievable! Faith, Reason, & the Search for Truth Candidate Without a Prayer: An Autobiography of a Jewish Atheist in the Bible Belt The Age of Movies: Selected Writings of Pauline Kael Death and the Skeptic Legalizing Sexual Harassment and Legislating Rape Torture on Trial Religious Freedom or Government-Sanctioned Discrimination? Thinking Like a Scientist Getting Real: A Look at the New Skepticism

	March / April 2012 Editor's Note Going Anti-Postal Jefferson’s Women The Bible According to Thomas Jefferson The Hidden Hues of Humanism Black Churches and Blue-Eyed Jesuses We Are All Where We Belong Overcoming Hidden Biases The Magic of Reality: How We Know What’s Really True The Inner Life of Humanists

	January / February 2012 Candace Gingrich-Jones (1966-present) Editor's Note A Dangerous Groundswell Why Aren’t More Kids Celebrating Darwin Day? By the People, for the People Tents or Tea? What Exactly Does the Occupy Movement Want? An Insider’s View from Occupy Oakland Moving from a War Economy to a Peace Economy Corporations or People? Restoring the Common Good Stuck in the Belly of the Beast: My Trip to the Values Voter Summit Seven Things to Avoid When Talking to Strangers about Humanism Less Than Human: Why We Demean, Enslave, and Exterminate Others The Leftovers The Humanist Interview with Clinical Psychologist Leon F. Seltzer

	November / December 2011 Terra Instabilis A Confraternity of the Fatherless Biblical Scholarship and the Right to Know The Body Business All Is Calm, All Is Bright Among the Truthers: A Journey Through America’s Growing Conspiracist Underground POETRY Will the Great Corrupters Please Rise Editor’s Note

	September / October 2011 EDITOR'S NOTE Stop Saying “Same-Sex” Marriage A Free Speech Challenge for Parents Remembering Lewis Hine Mastering the Camera Book Excerpt: Because I Say So The Humanist Interview with Leo Behe Still Enlightening after All These Years Standing Up for Science: Taking the Evolution Debate to the Next Level Raising the Flag A Costly Chill in the Air End of Country Kingpin: How One Hacker Took Over the Billion-Dollar Cybercrime Underground

	July / August 2011 EDITOR'S NOTE Erasing Women Real to Reel The Humanist Interview with Andrea Steele Heaven for Atheists Slowing Down the Consumer Treadmill A Humanist’s War Memory: “Spinach Music” Why Half the People Joining Churches Choose the Mega Variety The Techno-Human Condition Sex, Mom & God

	May / June 2011 Editor's Note Why I Am an Amoral, Family-Hating Monster… and Newt Gingrich Isn’t Freedom under Fire Fit to Serve After Fukushima What Do We Deserve? Corporate Power and Today’s Humanist FICTION: A Day in Heaven Man vs. Watson: The IBM Jeopardy Challenge Secular Gods American Grace: How Religion Divides and Unites Us

	March / April 2011 A Bad Month for Atheists? Scientific Spirit Speaking of Sex SPECIAL BOOK EXCERPT: War is A Lie Making Friends in High Places Medical Emergency: Catholic Hospitals Usurp Patients' Rights How Do We “Do” Humanism? LAST BISON GONE Deadly Spin: An Insurance Company Insider Speaks Out on How Corporate PR is Killing Health Care and Deceiving Americans

	January / February 2011 EDITOR'S NOTE Chipping Away at the Bench Matches Made on Earth: Why Family Values are Human Values Gay Suicide and the Ethic of Love: A progressive Christian response Pastors & Politics Plato, Romance, and Self-Inquiry The Nature of Great Coincidences What Next for Gay Marriage? Anarchy Evolution: Faith, Science, and Bad Religion in a World without God

	November / December 2010 THE ISSUE AT HAND "Burn a Koran Day" and the Flames of Extremism Net Neutrality, Google, and Internet Ethics The Best Idea We've Had So Far What I Know for Sure: The Future Is Up to Us The National Day of Prayer Decision: A Victory to Savor I Do Belong Sustainable Humanism The Religious Right and the Tea Party: Marriage of Convenience or Just a Passing Fling?

	September / October 2010 THE ISSUE AT HAND The Pill: Still Safe, Effective, and Threatening after All These Years Square One near Ground Zero Lift the Veil, See the Light Liberté, Egalité—de Féministes! Revealing the Burqa as a Pro-Choice Issue Evolution and the Thong-Burqa Continuum Atheism, Ethics, and Pornography: An Interview with Nina Hartley Shifting Positions: Humanist Perspectives on Porn Questions for Door Knockers The State of Sex: Tourism, Sex, and Sin in the New American Heartland

	July / August 2010 THE ISSUE AT HAND Mutilation by Any Other Name America’s Addiction to Belief Defending Climate Science Today Spoil the Earth, Spare the Child: Freeman Dyson’s Inconvenient Climate Views It’s Bigger than You Might Think Hiroshima and Nagasaki—Sixty-Five Years Later Messin’ With Texas: What We Can Learn from theTextbook Debacle Wonders, Not Miracles Eyes Wide Open You Don’t Know Jack Martin Gardner: The Polymath

	May / June 2010 ISSUE AT HAND A Questionable Pro-Choice Strategy (in 140 Characters or Less) The HUMANIST Interview with Rebecca Newberger Goldstein One Hot Book: Richard Seaver & The Public Burning’s Wild Ride Strategies for Fighting Blasphemy Laws in a Post-Tolerant World Christians, Homosexuality, and the Same-Sex Marriage Question Children of the CHON: What We Know about Genesis Everything Matters: Poetry and the Police Department The Mystery of Evil and Suffering The Sky, Full of Birds A Fiery Peace in a Cold War: Bernard Schriever and the Ultimate Weapon

	March / April 2010 THE ISSUE AT HAND Defusing the Neuron Bomb Humanists in Haiti No, We’re Not a Broken People No Agenda? A Humanist View of Justice Scalia Praying for Sex Lonesome No More! Kurt Vonnegut’s Freethinking Heritage Of Declarations and Tea Parties: A New Birth for the Religious Right? Trailblazers Wanted: Perfection Not Required HOWARD ZINN (1922-2010)

	January / February 2010 THE ISSUE AT HAND Naked Pumpkins, Sex Offenders, and Terrorists The HUMANIST Interview with Gore Vidal Uncertainty in Science: It’s a Feature, Not a Bug Apex or Ex-Ape? The Letter from Death No License to Promote Religion: S.C. Judge Nixes Christian Auto Tag Missing Stories from the Streets: Why Weren’t the Pittsburgh G-20 Protests Better Covered? The Poison Cure Society without God: What the Least Religious Nations Can Tell Us about Contentment Coats before Christmas

	November / December 2009 The Army Experience Center’s Bad Experience: Turns out Training Kids to Kill Not Popular with Public Darwin Drama Raises Questions for Both Sides Comes a Horseman GOOD WITHOUT GOD Memoirs of a Spiritual Refugee The Dog Delusion China’s Problem Children: Migrant Labor in the World’s Factory FERTILE EARTH

	September / October 2009 THE ISSUE AT HAND Humanism and the Burqa Bugaboo The HUMANIST Interview with Neil deGrasse Tyson Musings of a Solo-ist Astrophysicist An “Eco” Systems Approach: Reproductive Rights Go Green Baptism in Broad-mindedness: Saving Future Teachers from Creationism Confessions of a Prayer-Struck Atheist Original Intent An Edible History of Humanity

	July / August 2009 Thomas Paine, 1737-1809 THE ISSUE AT HAND If English Was Good Enough for Jesus… Nothing Sacred: What We Talk about When We Talk about Torture Torture Probe: Who's Being Protected under the Searing Bright Light? Hidden from History Counterfeiting Tradition Star Trek Made Me an Atheist P.S. Reader Commentary Karma, Dharma, Pudding & Pie

	May / June 2009 Priscilla Robertson, 1910-1989 LOCKDOWN: Are Teens (and Taxpayers) Paying the Price at Christian Reform Schools? The HUMANIST Interview with EBOO PATEL School Spirit OPERATION BABY LIFT: An Adoptee's Perspective Rational Sunday School The Reason “Everything Happens for a Reason” Bad/Good Teachers Living Without God: New Directions for Atheists, Agnostics, Secularists, and the Undecided Attendance Check

	March / April 2009 Who’s Your Guide? The Humanitarian Impulse: Not “God’s Work” for this Veteran Who Killed Neil Beagley? The Obama National Security Team: Old Wine in Old Bottles Invocation Irritation: What’s to Be Done about Government Prayer? Pedaling Our Way to Energy Independence

	January / February 2009 THE ISSUE AT HAND The Evolution of the Mind and What It Means to Humanism Inexorably toward Trial: Reflections on the Dover Case and the “Least Dangerous Branch” Why Genocide? Cry If You Want To—Cases of Mistaken Atheism Still Offensive Against Optimism

	November / December 2008 THE ISSUE AT HAND The Accidental Atheist: From Hippie to Humanist in Half a Century One Nation Under the Constitution: Reason, Politics, and Morality in the New Century What Would Jesus Do...If He Were a Lawyer? The Universal Declaration of Human Rights: Still Ahead of Its Time? Day of the Undead: Religious Right Alive and Kicking in America In Pursuit of the God Particle

	September / October 2008 THE HUMANIST INTERVIEW with Josh Tickell Deconstructing the Human Habitat Keeping an Eye on the (Post-Bush) Faith-Based Initiative Seven Miles per Potato I Don’t Believe in Atheists

	July / August 2008 Mapping Metaphor: This Is Your Brain on Figurative Language This Is the Time for Which We Have Been Waiting Of Crows Paradiso The Age of Barbaria

	May / June 2008 A Humanist Manifesto Turns Seventy-Five The Convictions of a Humanist Nichol's Tribe Teach Your Children Well: The First Rule of Any Civilized Society The Mind of the Market: Compassionate Apes, Competitive Humans, and Other Tales from Evolutionary Economics

	March / April 2008 Ripping into the Bible The Trouble with Pakistan Toward a Humanist Foreign Policy Compassion, Empathy and Being a Humanist What's So Great about Christianity

	January / February 2008 The Post-Theological Umbrella Absolute Infidel: The Evolution of Ayaan Hirsi Ali Another Successful "War on Christmas" for the Religious Right Fighting for Iraq: A Case for Liberation

	November / December 2007 Humanism and Its Discontents Environment and the New Humanism HUMANIST INTERVIEW: Robin Morgan, 2007 Humanist Heroine The Revolution Will Be Transmitted: Web 2.0 and Upheaval in Burma What Distracts Us from Impeachment?

	September / October 2007 Higher Power in the U.S. Armed Forces The Right to Religious Expression at the Air Force Academy Can Meditation Be Bad for You? The Rise of Christian Nationalism God Is Not Great: How Religion Poisons Everything Crossing Lines: Breaching Human-Animal and Left-Right Boundaries Belief and a Change of Fortune

	July / August 2007 America the Beautiful's Germ Warfare Rash Faith in Hiding: Are There Secular Grounds for Banning Abortion? The Female Nature: A Woman's Destiny? THE HUMANIST INTERVIEW A Brief History of Jonathan Miller The Bishop, the Statesman, and the Wren Cross: A Lesson in American Secularism

	May / June 2007 Grace and Goodwill: The Ballad of Eric-Uncle and Rev. Jey Uneven Terrain: A Peace Corps Farmer in Paraguay Follows the Contours How to Counter Religion's Toxic Effects Stark's Reason: How a California Congressman Became the Most Honest Person in Politics A Crowded But Empty Tomb