Meet the Humanist Service Corps Team
As the team settles in and starts getting to work in Kukuo, it’s time to get to know them a little bit better. Naduah Wheeler Naduah Wheeler is a graduate […]
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The Fiction Fallacy: Part 2, What Now?
In the first part of my exploration of the Fiction Fallacy, I argued that we cannot derive knowledge of the external world from fictions whatsoever. Now, it may occur to […]
The Fiction Fallacy: Part 1, The Problem
In the day to day tedium of life, I often turn to fiction for comfort. I appeal to fictions in part because they help pass the time, and also because […]
The Importance of Hard Science Fiction
For the last eighty or so years, science fiction writers have been the doormen to a strange and exciting universe replete with extra dimensions, elementary particles, time-travel, intergalactic wars, speculative […]
Why is Literature Important? The 3 Social Functions of Fiction
What’s the purpose of literature? Of fiction? Of course it’s enjoyable – it sweeps our emotions this way and that and allows us to ‘experience’ so much beyond our everyday life. […]
The Necessity of the Arts in Education
Exclusionary education is becoming more entrenched than ever. As governments across the nation slash budgets and continuously decrease funding for public education we begin to see its effects. Not only is the […]
Playing the Godgame in Greece: Book Review of John Fowles’ “The Magus”
Happily nestled between spot 92 and 94 on the Modern Library’s list of 100 Best Novels, The Magus by John Fowles is a disorienting psychological thriller detailing the misadventures of […]
To Walt Whitman, From Mark Twain
By Raj Gopal Rutgers University Here’s a letter from Mark Twain, perhaps the greatest American novelist, to Walt Whitman, perhaps the greatest American poet. It’s a movingly sincere ode to […]
Applied Sentience 