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What is a Man?
The magazine Humanist Perspectives has published a special issue on challenges faced by men in contemporary society. These articles presuppose we know what a man is but, in a society where a U.S. Supreme Court justice declared that she cannot define what a woman is because she is not a biologist, can we be sure? The…
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Discussion Paper on Palestine
The New Enlightenment Project: A Canadian Humanist Initiative Abstract Although enmity between Arab and Jew did not begin with the United Nations 1947 proposal for the partition of Palestine, the history of the region since has been one of intermittent warfare followed by periods of uneasy peace. The Jews, who established the state of Israel…
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Dr. Lawrence Krauss Talks About Nothing and Humanism
Dr. Lawrence Krauss, an internationally renowned theoretical physicist and bestselling author, was born in New York City and raised in Toronto, Canada. He earned his undergraduate degrees in Mathematics and Physics from Carleton University and a Ph.D. in Physics from MIT in 1982. He held academic positions at Harvard, Yale, and Case Western Reserve University,…