Socialism often gets a bad rap. But socialism seems to match our evolved tendency to organize quite well. And, based on FDR's ...

American Atheists has withdrawn as host of the 2026 World Humanist Congress, originally scheduled to be held in Washington, D.C., citing "new and yet unfolding risks posed by the escalation of ...

The world feels like an awful place right now. Here’s how to make it better. ... Humanism focuses on the subjective realm—the way each person takes events and molds them into a point of view.

But my friend recommended that I read C.S. Lewis’s “The Screwtape Letters” — a book he believed would speak to my ...

Each year, humanist organizations around the world celebrate the birthday of Charles R. Darwin, whose ideas on the origins of life changed our understanding of the world—and our place in it ...

Humanism and the world. Saturday, 22 March 2025 | Hiranmay Karlekar. The human race stands at a critical juncture, where its unchecked expansion and relentless exploitation of the natural world ...

For the humanist, possibility frustrated (or unintelligently nurtured) is possibility become poisonous. In the Purdue notes, Trilling looked back fondly to the “lost world” of John Erskine’s course, ...

From its very beginning, secular humanism has, in various ways, promised to save the world. Not only have these promises failed, but no coherent vision has even been offered of what a "saved world ...

First, Humanist would limit stock trading days, so people wouldn’t be thinking about their valuation 24/7. But, he pointed out, there’s a different dimension to mental health: access to wealth.

Today marks the 650th anniversary of the death of the medieval Italian poet, scholar and humanist Francesco Petrarca, known in English as Petrarch. Acknowledged as one of the most significant ...