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What Can a 17th-Century English Doctor Teach Us About Embracing Uncertainty?

What Can a 17th-Century English Doctor Teach Us About Embracing Uncertainty?

Cutter Wood on Thomas Browne and the Joys of Exploring What We Don't Know

By Cutter Wood | April 28, 2025

Respectability Be Damned: How the Harlem Renaissance Paved the Way for Art by Black Nonbelievers

Respectability Be Damned: How the Harlem Renaissance Paved the Way for Art by Black Nonbelievers

Anthony Pinn Explores How James Baldwin, Richard Wright, Zora Neale Hurston, and Others Embraced a New Black Humanism

By Anthony B. Pinn | May 24, 2024

How W. E. B. Du Bois Helped Pioneer African American Humanist Thought

How W. E. B. Du Bois Helped Pioneer African American Humanist Thought

Christopher Cameron on the Complex Relationship Between Black Americans and the Black Church

By Christopher Cameron | July 27, 2023

'Something Like My Own Obituary.' Albert Einstein on Skepticism, Reason, and Truth

'Something Like My Own Obituary.' Albert Einstein on Skepticism, Reason, and Truth

Autobiographical Notes">From His Autobiographical Notes

By Albert Einstein | May 14, 2020

On the Twin Forces of Hope and Skepticism

On the Twin Forces of Hope and Skepticism

Finding the Strength to Resist in William James and Bertrand Russell

By Veronica Esposito | January 11, 2017

Pop Culture in a Post-Truth America

Pop Culture in a Post-Truth America

On the Political Implications of TV's New Self-Consciousness

By Emily Harnett | December 15, 2016

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When an Internet Skeptic Takes to Twitter

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