by Elizabeth Duclos-Orsello | Jun 12, 2008 | The Public Humanist
Recently I have found myself more irate than usual about the lack of a living wage for all American workers; to me this is a moral issue that transcends all political posturing. A few weeks ago at my youngest brother’s college graduation Tavis Smiley spoke about...
by Dan Gordon | Jun 17, 2008 | The Public Humanist
Here at UMass Amherst we do not have a religious studies department, even though student interest in religion is on the rise. Courses on religion that are offered in the history department or part of the university’’s certificate program (a kind of minor,...
by David Mednicoff | Jun 19, 2008 | The Public Humanist
Judaism, Christianity and Islam are three major contemporary religions to come out of the Middle East, my region of focus as a scholar of contemporary law and politics. I study aspects of one religion professionally (Islam), experience the impact of another publicly...
by Elizabeth Thomsen | Jun 23, 2008 | The Public Humanist
On the web, history, like everything else, is a participatory activity. It’s not about visiting an online exhibit, it’s about engaging in an ongoing conversation. What do you see? Who is in this picture? Where and when was it taken? What is the story here?...
by Joanne Riley | Jun 25, 2008 | The Public Humanist
Whither Digital Natives? Rumor has it that the nature of human thinking is changing. As Nicholas Carr puts it in Is Google Making Us Stupid? What the Internet is Doing to Our Brains, "Over the past few years I’ve had an uncomfortable sense that someone, or...
