Why Baseball is like Humanism
By Tarikul Islam (New York University) This past semester I audited a popular NYU class called Baseball as a Road to God. The course used classic literatures to connect baseball […]
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Neo-humanism and PROUT: Alternative Pedagogy
by Milly Sil, Rutgers University Neohumanism will give new inspiration and provide a new interpretation for the very concept of human existence. It will help people understand that human beings, […]
Humanism as a Way of Life: Lalon Fakir & the Baul Tradition of Bengal
By Milly Sil At Rutgers University India is a country possessing rich cultural heritage and folk music has been an integral part of her culture. However, the folk singers of […]
Television to the Rescue: Secularism, Islam, and TV in Modern Bangladesh
By Tarikul Islam (New York University) I love watching movies – I know, a shocker, right? Recently, I found out that a Bangladeshi film closed at the prestigious Busan International […]
The Sacred & the Secular: Common Ground is Worth Finding
By Barry Klassel Humanist Chaplain at Rutgers University Despite an ingrained skepticism – and even revulsion – on the part of some at the thought of dialogue across the sacred/secular divide, there […]
The Excesses of Anti-Eurocentrism
It may seem trivial to point out that criticism of the Western tradition has become an accepted part of our discourse. Up until a few decades ago, however, Eurocentrism—the idea […]
The Only Thing We Have to Fear
By Alex Abbott American University The only thing we have to fear is fear itself. – Franklin Delano Roosevelt Three Muslim students murdered in Chapel Hill. Activist Raif Badawi imprisoned […]
The Top Three Political Battles Facing the Secular Movement This Year
With the religious rights’ stranglehold on the Republican Party, the results of the mid-term elections left few friends of secularism in Congress. The so-called “party of no” got straight to […]
Confessions of a Disoriented Young Humanist
By Alex Abbott American University My life is not a stained glass portrait of precise, crystalline ecstasy. It is a collage of murky grays, spectrums of sepia, tones of icy […]
What Can We Ask about Sexual Assault and Greek Life
Why Rampant Sexual Assault in Greek Life Should Not Surprise Us Within my first week of college at American University, I was told that Epsilon Iota (EI) was notorious for […]
Applied Sentience 