Humanist Perspectives: issue 189, Summer 2014
Issue 189, Summer 2014
Humanist Perspectives is a refreshing, rational analysis of modern events and culture and is available at select magazine stores or by online subscription.
Editorial
- Genes, ideology, and behaviour
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Conflicts that become news are presented almost entirely from an ethnic, religious, or political perspective, when in fact many arise from increasing scarcity.
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Features
- The Most Endangered Species
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As a consequence of our dependence upon nonrenewable natural resources (NNRs) – the finite and non-replenishing fossil fuels, metals, and nonmetallic minerals that enable our industrialized existence – we are both the hapless victims of our self-inflicted predicament and the tragic perpetrators of our self-inflicted demise.
Read article online - The Devil's Advocate: The Land of Cain
- Cartier, arriving in the land of Cain, would meet but never understand the culture of the Iroquoian people who then lived in the Saint Lawrence Valley.
- Genopolitics and the Future of Secular Humanism
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We know about the primary defining influence of our genes on our appearance, intellect, emotional makeup, susceptibility to certain diseases and so on. But can they really have a primary predestinating influence on our sociopolitical engagement?
Read article online - Belief, Life, and Understanding: An Engineer's Take
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We have arrived at humanity's fundamental conflict: We strive for control but know we will die.
Read article online - On Puritanism
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Beginning with Paul, we have a veritable campaign against the "flesh" together with a contempt for woman as the temptress, the infectious one, the dangerous one.
Read article online - The Demise of the Arab Narrative
- The Arab nationalism expressed by the Arab League and its institutions, including at the Arab Summit, turned out to be nothing more than a fig leaf to cover the naked factionalism, scheming, vengeance seeking, hatred, jealousy and competitiveness that encumbered every collective action of the Arab countries.
- How We Will Live On
- Let no one say that death, though occasionally regrettable, is anything but natural.
- The Lesson of Rwanda: A Review of Two Books by Roméo Dallaire by Eric Thomas
- What makes Dallaire's painful journey almost unbearable is the fact that its course was determined by the convoluted gyrations of United Nations politics and its self-aggrandizing agenda.
- In addition, Humanist Perspectives offers a lively Letters-to-the-Editor section as well as Book Reviews, books available for review and snippets of international news of interest to humanists.