When Would You Rather Be Alive?
Reading the news is always a marathon race between hope and despair, but that conflict has been especially sharp these last few months. While every era has its doomsayers, they’ve lately become a lot...
View ArticleThe America I Thought I Knew
A crushing end to the signs of moral progress in recent American history.
View ArticleThe Ashes: A Humanist Sermon
Despite the failure of our hopes, the mission to do good must continue.
View ArticleA Fireside Dialogue
1. A Portent Late on a wild and blustery autumn night, I was sitting in my study, sprawled out in a comfortable armchair, staring off into the middle distance. The fireplace held a swirl of ashes and...
View ArticleTa-Nehisi Coates and Atheistic Pessimism
Atheism doesn't strip us of hope, but it does strip us of false hope.
View ArticleThe Last Jedi and the Problem of Nihilism
Is moral progress an illusion, or is it simply a realistic lesson that we can never take evil's defeat for granted?
View ArticleOn the Edge of Climate Catastrophe
This was the greatest test humanity has ever faced, and it looks more and more like we're going to fail it.
View ArticleThe Great American Happiness Cliff
Americans are the unhappiest we've ever been. Is it a surrender to despair or a foretaste of change brewing?
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