The Humanist

In recent years, sustainable development has become a concept more sacrosanct than motherhood itself. But just as motherhood now admits of many definitions, sustainable development can have very diverse implications for our conception of ecology, social...

Religious moralists have always hated the music of youth culture. Jazz, rhythm and blues, rock 'n' roll, and now rap have been excoriated, condemned, and even banned throughout their histories. In recent times, however, Christian pop-culture critics...

Mary Morain is past-president of the International Society for General Semantics, has served on birth-control boards in Massachusetts and San Francisco, and has lectured and written widely on the need for population-growth control. Lloyd Morain is past-president...

On november 8, 1994, I joined many other citizens who voted for Democrats in order to stop Republicans. To no avail. The Republicans will now control both the Senate and the House of Representatives. So let's blame them for fighting dirty, for appealing...

The media have done a remarkable job of distorting and discrediting the meaning of the word feminism. The specific techniques by which this verbal mayhem was accomplished have been documented in detail in Susan Faludi's Backlash. It is possible that...

The above quote from Leonardo da Vinci sums up not only what the first Renaissance leaders did but what we in America must do: provide a renewed vision for our age. The fountainhead? Now, as in Leonardo's time: ancient Greece and the prototype of the...

In 1984, a little-known social theorist named Charles Murray published a book entitled Losing Ground: American Social Policy, 1950--80. Murray argued that our policy solutions to poverty were actually exacerbating social problems. Above all, he blamed...