Daily Archives: November 29, 2019

Empathie et tolérance

by | November 29, 2019

By Association humaniste du Québec — Pourquoi adopter une devise La promotion de la pensée critique et l’objectif de permettre aux brights et autres libres-penseurs d’occuper la place qui leur revient dans la société ont été les principales motivations qui ont conduit à la création de la Fondation et de l’Association humanistes. Or, il est apparu… Read more »

A secular heroes program?

by | November 29, 2019

By Ian Bushfield — I am always tossing a lot of ideas for projects around in my head. I get some down in writing and solicit opinions on others. Most don’t make it very far but others are actually implemented and affect change. Almost every idea is sparked by an initial outrage to a story in… Read more »

Breaking the Last Taboo

by | November 29, 2019

By James Haught James Haught is editor of West Virginia’s largest newspaper, The Charleston Gazette, and a senior editor of Free Inquiry. He is 87-years-old and would like to help secular causes more. This series is a way of giving back. — Few Americans know that Thomas Jefferson wrote, in a letter to John Adams: “The day will… Read more »

Ask Dr. O 4 – The Full Lamont-y: The United Nations as, in Principle, Extended Bureaucratic Humanism

by | November 29, 2019

— By Scott Douglas Jacobsen Dr. David L. Orenstein is a Full Professor of Anthropology at Medgar Evers College of the CUNY (City University of New York) who has authored two books: Godless Grace: How Non-Believers are Making the World Safer Richer and Kinder (2015) and Darwin’s Apostles (2019). In early professional training, Orenstein was a  primatologist, he grew into a prominent… Read more »