Category: Class-article
Humanism in Children’s Literature
More than any other literary genre, children's stories have played a profound role in rejecting authoritarianism, behavioral control, and social domination, instead fostering values such as [...]
From Lawyers to School Children: Deconstructing the Mass Grave Narrative
Jim Heller asked the B.C. Law society to use the phrase “potential unmarked burial site” since, after three years, no bodies had been found. [...]
A Humanist Discussion on Palestine
Why have similar attempts for peace repeatedly failed over the past 77 years since the United Nations proposed to partition Palestine between Arab and Jews? [...]
Everyone is Gay
What if gay were a continuum? Barely perceptibly gay to gay-all-the-way. It would not matter. Those of us who are barely perceptibly gay are still gay, and we need to recognize equal rights [...]
Drones, Aggression, and Humanist Ethics in Modern War
Humanists may regard war as rightly barbaric. However, in the midst of it, self-defence of a smaller power must confront such aggression for survival. [...]
Our Journey to the Peace School
Just as we were losing hope, a chance conversation on Instagram led us to 'The Peace School' in Toronto. Our conversation with the co-founders of 'The Peace School' was a breath of fresh air [...]
A Call for Responsible Nationalism
Shocking though it may be to some Americans, we have our own sovereign country. It is our country; we treasure it and we want to keep it. [...]
Otis Redding and Aretha Franklin were Right: it’s all about Respect
To protect democracy, the interdependence of the rule of law and democracy has to be more fully appreciated: the truth is that you simply cannot have one without the other. [...]
On Freedom and Dignity: Issues Raised by the Contemporary American Political Crisis
Freedom and dignity are two features of liberal democracy. These are protected by laws but what happens if the laws are ignored by the governments sworn to uphold them. [...]
Liberal Society Under Attack from Within
The marchers may want to dismantle the pluralistic liberal order, but they are also its beneficiaries, helping themselves to core liberal values like freedom of speech and assembly.
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EDITORIAL: LIBERAL DEMOCRACY and RULE OF LAW: UNDER ATTACK
This issue of Humanist Perspectives focuses on the challenges facing liberal democracy and the rule of law as well as Canadian patriotism, business & environment, the humanist peace school a [...]
Children are Not Talking Parrots
Many families and teachers believe that if students retain a set of hard, basic information and succeed in specific tests, the educational process has been successful. [...]
On Racism, Religion, Antisemitism and ‘The Story’
To claim that the Israeli existential struggle is “a racial issue” is like suggesting that religious wars that decimated 16th-18th centuries Europe were “a racial issue”. [...]