Humanism

Frankfort School philosopher Theodor Adorno wrote: The need to let suffering speak is a condition of all truth. For suffering is objectivity that weighs upon the subject. (Negative Dialectics) Adorno was one of the creators of what is known as critical theory. …

Sustainable Activism Matters — What are you most outraged about at the moment? Gun violence? The prospect of women losing their reproductive freedom? The climate crisis? The attacks on transgendered persons? The erosion of church-state separation? The inability of our lawmakers to solve any of the problems confronting us today? …

Part Non-fiction part Autobiography — So, the debate over abortion still rages. Is it moral? Is it permissible, and if so, under what circumstances? These are not, nor should they be, easy questions to answer. Each generation must address the basic questions of life for themselves. …

Feminism? — Opinion | The Future Isn't Female Anymore The Drift, a buzzy literary journal founded by Kiara Barrow and Rebecca Panovka, left-leaning women in their late 20s…www.nytimes.com We come to this: How do we value individuals and groups of individuals on Earth and why? How do we show someone they and their group are valued? There are two main types of person among humans regardless of culture: female and male. They have different roles in terms of…

The media spectacle of the State of Tennessee v. John Thomas Scopes in the summer of 1925 underlined for many religious liberals that Charles Darwin’s natural selection would be the wedge that permanently split Western religious thinking into two broad camps. The question became what position the most protesting of…

You Don’t Believe in All Gods — Are you aware that humans have worshiped many different gods throughout the ages? How many different gods? The low end of most of the estimates I have seen is about 8,000. …

I have loved what are called “the liberal arts” for most of my life. I can truthfully say that I moved from biblical fundamentalism to a lover of literary Modernism in the wink of an eye. I took one look at T.S. Eliot’s poetry and Allen Ginsberg’s poetry and I…