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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...

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On Human Negativity Bias

Why people are so eager to believe the worst.

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The America I Thought I Knew

A crushing end to the signs of moral progress in recent American history.

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The Ashes: A Humanist Sermon

Despite the failure of our hopes, the mission to do good must continue.

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The Gap

Maybe dreaming of saving the world is too grand an ambition.

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A 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...

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Ta-Nehisi Coates and Atheistic Pessimism

Atheism doesn't strip us of hope, but it does strip us of false hope.

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The 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?

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On 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.

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The 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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