Humanist Perspectives: Archives
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issue 172
Thomas Carlyle: Transcendentalism and Beyond
This issue includes:- Asimov's Next Revolution;
- A Race of One's Own;
- Darwin's Conflict With His Wife and God;
- The Humanistic Value of Martial Arts;
- Another Voice for Non-believers;
- Why be Moral;
- A Poet's Voice: Keith Garebian;
issue 171
Now these are brothers in arms
This issue includes:- The Lynching of Louie Sam;
- With God on our Side;
- Which Green World? The Politics of Technology in the Sustainable Redevelopment of Benny Farm;
- The Grass Was never Greener: A Benny Farm Memoir;
- A Right to Die;
- Science as a Voice for Morality;
- A Poet's Voice: Kim Goldberg;
issue 170
We Have to Stop Meeting Like This
This issue includes:- Conkers;
- Act of God;
- Palestine — A Tortured and Elusive Homeland;
- A Poet's Voice: John Barton;
- Human Rights Commissions in Canada: A Case of Counter-Intuitive Controversies;
- A Major Setback for Secularism in Quebec Schools;
- Dismantling the Temple;
- On the International Scene;
issue 169
Darwin: Between God and Nature
This issue includes:- An Evolution of Evil;
- Darwin: Between God and Nature;
- Palestine — A Tortured and Elusive Homeland;
- A Poet's Voice: John Smith;
- Zionism: The Real Problem in the Middle East;
- Performing Solidarity;
- The Psyche of Al-Qaeda;
- Beyond Despair: Through the Lens of Palestinian and Israeli Filmmakers;
issue 168
The Bus to Everywhere
This issue includes:- The Elephant in Your Child's Bed;
- The Protection of Canadian Sovereignty;
- The Bus to Everywhere;
- Symbolic Democracy;
- Beliefs for the 21st Century: A Humanist-Evolutionist Creed?;
- The Nazi Pope;
- Book Review: Understanding and Challenging the New World Order;
- A Poet's Voice;
- Life, Culture and Religion;
- Does Secularism Imply Religious Neutrality?;
- In Praise of Rational Discourse;
issue 167
Rain Dances Won't Save Us
This issue includes:- The Obama Factor;
- Rain Dances Won't Save us;
- The Idea of Progress and the First Nations;
- Canada's Policy of Mass Immigration;
- A Poet's Voice;
- Film Review: Telling the Truth about Torture;
- Book Review: Understanding and Challenging the New World Order;
issue 166
Militarism: What do we do about it?
This issue includes:- Support our troops;
- Militarism in Canada and the World: What do we do about it?;
- What Progress for Afghan women?;
- The Political Economy of Afghanistan: Unthinkable thoughts and Unprintable words;
- How the Military Invades Our Everyday Lives;
- War is an Atrocity;
- A Poet's Voice;
- The Terror of True Belief;
issue 165
Pernicious Identities
This issue includes:- Pernicious Identities;
- My Life as a Heretic;
- The Unacknowledged Scandal of Electoral Fraud;
- Imposing Identities;
- Toward a Human Identity;
- Seeking our Common Humanity;
- Truth, Illusion & Identity;
- Understanding Black Anger
- Say it with Balloons
issue 164
When the Law is an Ass
This issue includes:- Punishing Acts of Mercy: Robert Latimer & the Justice System;
- Crime & Punishment;
- the Significance of Juries;
- Lawlessness in Berlin & Brooklyn;
- Pressing for Remorse?;
- Authority & Civil Disobedience;
- Drugs, Drug Policy & Crime: 100 Years of Asinine Law…
issue 163
Eco Humanism
This issue includes:- Dualism, Nature & Society: Finding Peace with What Is;
- Remembering an Eco-Humanist;
- Photo Essay by Montreal photographer Daniel Seguin;
- Subsidies & Deep-Sea Fish Depletion;
- Belief & Eco-Humanism…
issue 162
Justice & Revenge
This issue includes:- Vengeance is Mine;
- Forgiveness: The Weak Get Even & The Great Get Over It;
- Getting Even? The Ethics & Politics of Revenge;
- Let’s Make Us Medicine of Our Great Revenge: Revenge as a Literary Motif;
- From Brooklyn to Iraq: Revenge in the Desert, Resolve in the Ring…
issue 161
Minding the Media
This issue includes:- an Interview with Julia Sweeney;
- Exuberating Fantasticisms: Narratives of Destiny in Audition-Based TV Shows;
- Propaganda, Language & the Media;
- Movies in the Shadow of the Church;
- Media & the Shaping of Reality;
- Media Responsibility in a Democracy…
issue 160
the War on Science & Reason
This issue includes:- an Interview with Michael Shermer;
- the SSHRC & Intelligent Design;
- Wars on Science? a historical perspective;
- Selective Skepticism, Manufactured Doubt & the Politics of Science;
- When Ignorance Masquerades as Science;
- Science & Self-Deception …
issue 159
How Universities Are Failing Us
This issue includes:- What They Teach;
- How They Teach;
- Corporate Sponsorship;
- Postmodernism;
- and SSHRC continues to embarrass Canada …
issue 158
the Psychology of Belief
This issue includes:- Respect, Belief and Disbelief;
- Even Scientists Make BIG Mistakes;
- Seeing is Believing is Seeing;
- an Imperfect Road Map to Reality;
- the Losing Battle with Islam …
issue 157
What Humanists Care About
This issue includes:- Evolution;
- the Second Humanist Revolution: Eco-Humanism;
- Morality Without Religion;
- Special Report: Research Council endorses Intelligent Design …
issue 156
Africa, the Cradle of Humanity
This issue includes:- the End of Racism? (We are All African);
- What can be done to help Africa?;
- Decolonizing the Images (with filmmaker Ousmane Sembene);
- the Concept of Ubuntu …
issue 155
Living with Democracy
This issue includes:- One Nation Under Fraud;
- the Alien Princess;
- Living with Theocracy;
- Politicians and Trust …
issue 154
Darwin & the Evangelicals
This issue includes:- Evolution & Education;
- Evangelism & Domestic Violence in the Highlands of Paupa New Guinea;
- Faith & Thinking;
- Our Hitler …
issue 153
Medicine & the Informed Patient
This issue includes:- The Appeal of Alternative Medicine;
- The Partially Informed Patient;
- Screening and the Prevention of Disease;
- Alfred C Kinsey …
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issue 152
The Trial of Evelyn Martens
This issue includes:- The Trial of Evelyn Martens;
- Active and Passive Euthanasia;
- Dying and Supernatural Experience;
- The Famous, or Infamous Slippery Slope …
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issue 151
Science & Conscience
This issue includes:- Biotechnology, Ethics and the Future;
- Science and George Bush;
- What is Conscience;
- The Dark Lady of DNA …
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issue 150
Education & Critical Thinking
This issue includes:- an interview with Pat Duffy Hutcheon;
- Theory of Knowledge in Schools;
- the Competent Layperson;
- Children & War …
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issue 149
Popular Culture
This issue includes:- the Tradition & Techniques of Satire: the Case of Michael Moore, pt 1;
- Clutter;
- Appealing to the Natural;
- Dwarf Tossing …
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issue 148
Environmental Ethics
This issue includes:- Ecology & Humanism;
- a model for land conservation;
- Evolutions vs Creationism;
- Civilization in Crisis, pt 3 …
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issue 147
The Imagined World
This issue includes:- A Bard’s Curriculum;
- Myth & Fantasy: a Humanist Perspective;
- Hollywood & the End of History;
- Harry Potter and the Humanist …
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issue 146
Ends & Means
This issue includes:- Seeds: a dialogue on Gandhi’s account of means & ends;
- Gandhi’s Letters to Hitler, 1939, 1941;
- Iran’s Remarkable National Cinema;
- Tribute to Blodwen & Joe Piercy …