Author Archives: Scott Douglas Jacobsen

About Scott Douglas Jacobsen

Scott Douglas Jacobsen is the Founder of In-Sight: Independent Interview-Based Journal and In-Sight Publishing. Jacobsen works for science and human rights, especially women’s and children’s rights. He considers the modern scientific and technological world the foundation for the provision of the basics of human life throughout the world and advancement of human rights as the universal movement among peoples everywhere. You can contact Scott via email, his website, or Twitter.

I was interviewed: What Have I Been Putting People Through All These Years?

by | January 25, 2024

By Scott Douglas Jacobsen The interviewer and the hosts were wonderful. No complaints. I’m just being silly. For years, though, I took to never doing interviews. I allowed one interview of two questions with the founder of The Realist, Paul Krassner, who is no longer here (dead). He published that for, maybe, 50 years or something insane.… Read more »

Formulation of Humanist Policy Internationally, with Considerations

by | January 13, 2024

By Scott Douglas Jacobsen Humanists International in Denmark Humanists International hosted its 2023 combined World Congress and General Assembly in Copenhagen, Denmark, at the Scandic Copenhagen in early August. It was the first World Congress in almost a decade. A large gathering of hundreds of leaders within the humanist movement. At one point in the General… Read more »

Handmaid Danger Fading

by | February 20, 2022

By James Haught The Handmaid’s Tale — a grotesque novel about a fundamentalist takeover that turns part of America into a cruel theocracy called Gilead — rang a worldwide bell when published in 1985. The vivid book by Canadian Margaret Atwood sold eight million copies and was made into a Hulu television series that won eight Emmies and two… Read more »

Many, Many, Many Gods

by | February 13, 2022

By James Haught “Man is certainly stark mad; he cannot make a worm, yet he will make gods by the dozen.” — Michel de Montaigne (1533–1592), creator of the essay. But Montaigne spoke too modestly. Instead of dozens, the human imagination has created thousands — even tens of thousands — of gods. Hinduism’s ancient Sanskrit Vedas, written about 1200 BCE, declared… Read more »