Leading Humanists Resign after Woke Capture of FFRF

Jerry Coyne, Steven Pinker and Richard Dawkins have independently resigned from the Freedom from Religion Foundation. Their letters of resignation can be found here: https://whyevolutionistrue.com/2024/12/29/steve-pinker-resigns-from-the-freedom-of-religion-foundation/. The resignations came after FFRF retroactively caved to Woke creed and cancelled a rebuttal by biologist Jerry Coyne to an earlier article, “What is a Woman.” Coyne’s article was reproduced […]

How pseudoscientific ideas about food and medicine have helped to devalue science, reason, and all things Western

This article traces the contribution of New Age foodism and “alternative” medicine to a political movement that devalues science, reason and all things “Western”. It’s unlikely that anyone consciously combined the disparate pieces of antagonistic philosophies into a new proto-religion that was then marketed. I argue that this new proto-religion, sometimes referred to as Wokism, […]

Woke ironies: achieving the opposite of its stated goals

In this article originally published in the British journal, Humanistically Speaking, the Edan Tasca of the Centre for Inquiry Canada and I examine the phenomenon of Wokism, which can be understood as a secular religion or as a mind virus that has infected humanist as well as many other organizations. We argue that, to achieve […]

Dr. Marty Shoemaker on Humanist Chaplaincy

In this interview the New Enlightenment Project’s Director of Advocacy Scott Douglas Jacobsen interviews Humanist Chaplain Marty Shoemaker about the need for chaplains in humanism. Dr. Martin “Marty” Shoemaker is a trained clinical psychologist and, currently, a Humanist Chaplain at Kwantlen Polytechnic University (Multifaith Centre) and Vancouver General Hospital (August, 2014-Present). Previously, he worked as a […]

President’s report to the 2024 Annual General Meeting

Consistent with our mission and vision statement adopted at our June 2023 annual general meeting, The New Enlightenment Project has continued to promote reason, science, and compassion in guiding the pursuit of knowledge, the practice of governance, and the pursuit of individual goals. Our mission and vision was encapsulated in the following poster presented to […]

Psychology in the Snow: Reflections on Mental Wellness in the North

A collaboration between Metis counselling psychologist, Dr. Lloyd Hawkeye Robertson, and European-Canadian independent journalist, Scott Douglas Jacobsen. The purpose of this text is the provision of a public resource focused on presenting a social scientific account of issues in society and the aspects of counseling psychology capable of handling them.” — Scott Jacobsen VANCOUVER, BRITISH […]

Humanists International, Russian Federation, Ukraine, and the United Nations

Scott Douglas Jacobsen (author) attended the August, 2023 Humanists International World Congress and more recently returned from visiting Ukraine Humanists International in Denmark Humanists International hosted its 2023 combined World Congress and General Assembly in Copenhagen, Denmark, at the Scandic Copenhagen in early November. It was the first World Congress in almost a decade. A […]

Reflections on the death of Richard Bilkszto

I think there is much humanists can learn from the death of Richard Bilkszto. My tribute to him was published in this month’s issue of Humanistically Speaking, a humanist magazine published in the United Kingdom that was doing a special issue on the phenomenon of Wokism. The article can be found here:  How Woke puritanism […]

Humanists International 2023: An Exciting Congress

By Pierre St-Amant, AHQ delegate to the conference. Humanists International (HI) is a non-governmental organization representing humanists, atheists, agnostics, and freethinkers from all over the world. It promotes humanist principles and defends humanists who are victims of persecution and violence around the world. It also promotes policies based on reason and science. It holds annual general meetings […]

President’s report to the 2023 Annual General Meeting

The New Enlightenment Project was created to protect and expand humanist values, rational inquiry, and evidence-based decision-making in the face of challenges from people who believe truth is revealed or socially constructed by ideologies.  We seek to alert the humanist community to these challenges and expand the application of enlightenment skills to modern or contemporary […]