Category: editorial
EDITORIAL: THE FUTURE OF DEMOCRACY
Simply put, elections encourage and reward lying. We have a system that does select out not the best people but, in some cases at least, the worst – the most effective liars. We do not want [...]
EDITORIAL: ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE
This special issue of Humanist Perspectives Magazine will delve into the complex topic of Artificial intelligence which has seen an exponential growth in coverage. [...]
EDITORIAL: INTO THE DARKNESS
Does Institutionalized lying desensitise us to the rampant dishonesty that characterizes our political world today?? [...]
EDITORIAL: REFLECTIONS OF A HUMANIST– Modern Humanism and the Environment
Humanists are natural allies of the environmental movement, not believing that we will be bailed out of our follies by a supernatural power. Humanists believe that we must save ourselves an [...]
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 [...]
EDITORIAL: More Dubious Ideas
For the second issue in a row we are examining the odd persistence of questionable ideas. Why? I guess because there are so many of them. [...]
Humanist Perspectives Short Submission Contest 221
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EDITORIAL: The Strange Persistence of Dubious Ideas
The best estimate is that something close to 200,000 needless deaths have occurred as a result of what is politely called “vaccine hesitancy,” while, as one study shows, an unvaccinated adul [...]
Humanist Perspectives Short Submission Contest 220
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Editorial: When Principles are in Conflict
Simply “acting on principle” is not good enough. Simply demanding “freedom” is not good enough. It is not even good. [...]
EDITORIAL: A Prescription for Dealing with the Pandemic: Less Fear, More Reason
The lockdowns and vaccine mandates imposed in response to the pandemic are ineffective and an infringement of our Charter rights, Madeline Weld argues. Instead of censorship of opinions cont [...]
Humanist Perspectives Short Submission Contest 219
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Editorial: Why I Am a Humanist
What do we mean when we identify ourselves as humanists? HP Editor Gary Bauslaugh writes his answer to this question, as does Elka Enola of the Humanist Association of Toronto. We invite oth [...]
EDITORIAL: Contrition and Cancel Culture
Late in May, an estimated 215 unmarked graves were reported to have been found through ground-penetrating radar on the premises of a former residential school in Kamloops, BC. [...]
EDITORIAL: The Abuse of Power (2)
The common saying that power corrupts and absolute power corrupts absolutely has never struck me as quite right. Certainly we see the corrupt employment of power, perhaps never so dramatical [...]