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Dr. Alon Milwicki on the Utilitarianism of Anti-Semitism

by | August 15, 2024

Dr. Alon Milwicki is a senior research analyst in the Intelligence Project at the Southern Poverty Law Center.  Scott Douglas Jacobsen: As you reminded me and then taught me a bit further, antisemitism is not static. It’s problematic to make it a single definition. When we’re trying to create a culture in which it is… Read more »

Dr. Marty Shoemaker on Humanist Chaplaincy

by | July 23, 2024

In this interview the New Enlightenment Project’s Director of Advocacy Scott Douglas Jacobsen interviews Humanist Chaplain Marty Shoemaker about the need for chaplains in humanism. Dr. Martin “Marty” Shoemaker is a trained clinical psychologist and, currently, a Humanist Chaplain at Kwantlen Polytechnic University (Multifaith Centre) and Vancouver General Hospital (August, 2014-Present). Previously, he worked as a psychologist… Read more »

Conversations on the Art of Resistance (3): Body as Canvas

by | June 27, 2024

Victoria Gugenheim was drawing before she could talk and was beginning with makeup by age 6, then focusing on face and bodypainting by age 9. She enjoys the process of de-othering as means of humanizing people. Her artistic forms vary widely from bodypainting, clothing design, digital art, and drawing, to installations, makeup, painting, and photography. Her… Read more »

Ask Jon 40: Transcendentalist Ethics, or Moral Truncation in Practice

by | November 7, 2021

By Scott Douglas Jacobsen Jonathan Engel, J.D. is the President of the Secular Humanist Society of New York. Here we talk about ongoing problems with religious ethics in practice in critical times. *Interview conducted August 30, 2021.* Scott Douglas Jacobsen: So, today we’re going to be focusing on mandates around COVID, and religious institutions and the State. With… Read more »

Ask Mandisa 66: Performative and Substantive Activism

by | August 17, 2021

By Scott Douglas Jacobsen Mandisa Thomas, a native of New York City, is the founder and President of Black Nonbelievers, Inc. Although never formally indoctrinated into belief, Mandisa was heavily exposed to Christianity, Black Nationalism, and Islam. As a child she loved reading, and enjoyed various tales of Gods from different cultures, including Greek and Ghanaian. “Through… Read more »

Ask Professor Burge 24: Hispanic Evangelicals, White Atheists, and White Evangelicals

by | July 16, 2021

By Scott Douglas Jacobsen Professor Ryan Burge‘s website states: “I am an Assistant Professor of Political Science as well as the Graduate Coordinator at Eastern Illinois University. I teach in a variety of areas, including American institutions, political behavior, and research methods. My research focuses largely on the intersection between religiosity and political behavior (especially in… Read more »