by Brian Glyn Williams | Oct 3, 2013 | The Public Humanist
I first began traveling to Afghanistan soon after the 2001 liberation of the country from the Taliban and, despite the extreme dangers, poverty, and lack of development, came to love this war torn land and her people. My journeys there gave me tremendous insight into...
by Tim Wright | Oct 8, 2013 | The Public Humanist
There are legitimate doubts about whether the watered down gun related legislation recently proposed would have had a significant effect on gun violence. But surely its abject failure has at least one cause that is not much mentioned. When I hear National Public...
by Hayley Wood | Oct 11, 2013 | The Public Humanist
This past June, Franklin D’Olier Reeve, the husband of my favorite college professor, Laura Stevenson, died. I learned this, weirdly, from a Facebook friend who lives in Russia. He posted a link to Franklin’s obituary in the New York Times, which I suggest...
by Barbara Lewis | Oct 16, 2013 | The Public Humanist
“Hold up. You’re not done yet,” the woman in the corner told August. “Who are you?” August asked, blinking. “My name is Vera, and I belong in that story you’re telling,” she said. “That play is about me. You got it...
by Daniel Sarefield | Oct 24, 2013 | The Public Humanist
With the 2012 passing of American novelist Ray Bradbury and the sixtieth anniversary of the publication of his dystopian novel Fahrenheit 451 in 2013, the time was right to return to his most famous work and use it as a starting point to discuss society, technology,...