The Humanist

Discussion of "traditional values" has been prominent not only in political slogans and speeches but some polls indicate that they are an important concern for a significant segment of the electorate as well. Yet as a university professor who has researched...

ADULT $8.75 12pm Sat. 10/01/05 NC-17 Abuse, racism, torture, and savagery. The pictures show it all. The photographs taken at Abu Ghraib Prison are difficult to view. U.S. soldiers compelling nude Iraqi prisoners into sexually degrading poses....

Humanity's long history of attempting to understand how the brain is structured and functions is a mixture of painstaking observations, brilliant insights, and spectacular errors. Knowledge in this area developed sporadically from antiquity through...

A recent obituary in the New York Times told about Frank Smith, "who as an inmate leader at Attica prison was tortured by officers in the aftermath of the prisoner uprising of 1971 and then spent a quarter century successfully fighting for legal damages."...

Earlier this year Jennifer Musgrove, at the time a senior at Palm Bay High, took on the Brevard County, Florida, school board over the decision that her school made despite objections to hold graduation in a church. In her federal lawsuit she was represented...

In this issue we apply the words of Feodor Dostoyevsky: "The degree of civilization in a society is revealed by entering its prisons." Anthony Papa, the artist whose painting illustrates our cover, allows us to enter one of those prisons, see what...

Education is a human right. As a society we are obligated to provide a quality education to all children equally and to provide this education free of charge. As Humanists we are understandably concerned with the quality of education provided to the...