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Who’s Afraid of Charles Darwin?

Who’s Afraid of Charles Darwin?

Progress, it seems, is anything we don’t have now and what we will inevitably get in the future, if we will only trust its vendors, open our minds and empty our pockets. Progress, it also se [...]
Voice of a Humanist: The Transition to a Low-Carbon Economy

Voice of a Humanist: The Transition to a Low-Carbon Economy

Sometimes the word 'humanism' makes people assume that the humanist approach to life is only concerned with the welfare of human beings. In reality, humanists believe that we should consider [...]
Can Using ‘Rights of Nature’ Protect 
Old Growth Forests?

Can Using ‘Rights of Nature’ Protect 
Old Growth Forests?

Forests are not only important habitat for wildlife, but also essential to the human world as ways of sequestering carbon, retaining water and moderating temperature extremes. Current clear [...]
Geothermal Electricity – Energy Source for the Existential Emergency

Geothermal Electricity – Energy Source for the Existential Emergency

Why is there so little apparent interest in an energy source which could be relatively inexpensive, inexhaustible, and safe? Geothermal energy seems likely to be an energy source in the fut [...]
The Grizzly Trophy – a dialogue

The Grizzly Trophy – a dialogue

Is there any any justification for the so-called sport of big game trophy hunting? Philosopher Trudy Govier examines the arguments in dialogue form. [...]
I am a Factualist

I am a Factualist

What kind of “ist” are you? Scientist Clifford Leznoff argues that the term “factualist” better describes the identity of many of those who call themselves “humanists.” [...]
Happy Girl: The Latimer Dialogues 2

Happy Girl: The Latimer Dialogues 2

The second part (of 5) of the verbatim rendering of the trials of Robert Latimer is presented here. Covered here is dramatic testimony from medical witnesses and others. [...]
EDITORIAL: Ecohumanism: Let Us Pray?

EDITORIAL: Ecohumanism: Let Us Pray?

How should we react to an existential crisis? The first reaction of many religious people is to pray, an action that is unhelpful at best and dysfunctions at worst. Our ecological crisis req [...]
Book Review: Miss Bo Lyell’s Rambles In The New World by M. K. SINGLETON

Book Review: Miss Bo Lyell’s Rambles In The New World by M. K. SINGLETON

This is a fictional story of two ladies, Boadeccia (Bo) from Warwickshire and Danica from Leicestershire, young cousins from the old, influential and rich Lyell family. In 1869, they sailed [...]
Let’s Congratulate Quebec for Bill 21

Let’s Congratulate Quebec for Bill 21

Many folks in English Canada are wrong in their criticism of Quebec’s Bill 21, the law which promotes secularism. This progressive bill should be celebrated, not condemned. [...]
Monstrous Egotists, Monstrous Lies

Monstrous Egotists, Monstrous Lies

When Hitler spoke of “the big lie” many people thought that it was a dubious idea – attractive, for some reason, only in Germany. Donald Trump has proven that it was not such a dubious ide [...]
Interview with Gregory Biniowsky

Interview with Gregory Biniowsky

“The Left needs to re-root itself in humanism.” This was the conclusion of Gregory Biniowsky, a life-long Leftist after he returned from a 30 year sojourn in Cuba. While there, he had been a [...]
Humanist Perspectives Short Submission Contest 222

Humanist Perspectives Short Submission Contest 222

We invite you to share your humanist views with us in a paragraph or two (MAX 1000 chars) on one of the following subjects reflected by these 3 images. [...]
Poetry and the End of the World

Poetry and the End of the World

We do not usually think of poetry and the apocalypse at the same time, but Ben D'Andrea’s article in the last issue of HP, in which he cites some poems about the end of time, got Gwyneth thi [...]
Dubious to one, truth to another

Dubious to one, truth to another

How can some individuals and groups perversely deny what seems to many of us an obvious truth? Many factors apart from reason, including personality, experience, teaching and social pressur [...]
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