Humanist Perspectives: issue 183, Winter 2012-2103
Issue 183, Winter 2012-2103
Humanist Perspectives is a refreshing, rational analysis of modern events and culture and is available at select magazine stores or by online subscription.
Editorial
Features
- COUNTERATTACK 4: Return Power to the People
- As an Op-Ed we bring you Installment Four of Henry Beissel’s thought-provoking CounterAttack series that continues to provide practical, if startling, solutions toward securing the success of Canada’s experiment in Democracy.
Download as PDF
- A Leave-taking from Ernest George Poser (1921 - 2012)
Download as PDF
- The Islamic Tipping Point
- Does recognizing an extreme predicament make one an ‘extremist’?
Read article online | Download as PDF
- A Poet’s Voice
- Henry Beissel is a poet, playwright, essayist, translator and editor with over 30 publications that have brought him international recognition and awards. “Poetry invites us to the joy of living by making us know and celebrate the uniqueness, fragility and evanescence of life. Thus poetry reconciles us to the tragic flaw in all conscious existence. It can take us to the edge of knowing and point beyond itself into the mystery that surrounds us.”
Read the poems online | Download as PDF
- ‘Dumbing Down’ the CBC News
- Nancy P. Swartz again shines with a brilliant analysis of the dumbing down of the television branch of The Canadian Broadcasting Corporation.
Read article online | Download as PDF
- God’s Psychiatrist? A Biographical Goodbye to Dr. Wendell Watters
- Throughout his 88 years of life, he was a dedicated family man – to his wife Lena, children and grandchildren – never allowing his career to overshadow his private life.
Read article online | Download as PDF
- Paul Kurtz, 1925 - 2012
Download as PDF
Book Reviews
- Seasons of Blood by Henry Beissel
-
Mel Massey reviews From Healing to Hell by William Henry Wall
Download as PDF
James Bacque reviews Coming to Terms with a Child by Henry Beissel AND Geoffery Dow reviews Mortality by Christopher Hitchens
Download as PDF
Henry Beissel reviews Cry from a Silent Planet by John Rowland
Download as PDF
- In addition, Humanist Perspectives offers a lively "Letters-to-the-Editor" exchange. In this issue you’ll find feedback from our readers including praise for our publishing courage, words from an elderly veteran who almost got cheated out of $2,000 by Canada’s creeping two-tier health system and a response from The Rev. Paul D. Owen, Ph.D. to Greta Christina's article “Why are Believers willfully ignorant about Atheists?.