by Larry Hott | Dec 18, 2008 | The Public Humanist
Up until ten years ago I used to get a phone call every week from aspiring filmmakers or parents of aspiring filmmakers (or were they aspiring to be parents of filmmakers?) asking me if their talented son or daughter should go to film school to become another...
by Tim Wright | Dec 23, 2008 | The Public Humanist
“Who you gonna believe, baby, me or yo’ lyin’ eyes?” –Richard Pryor, on being caught in flagrante delicto by his wife. Here’s how I lost my innocence about looking: I was teaching Social Studies to seventh graders at a Boston public...
by Dan Gordon | Dec 29, 2008 | The Public Humanist
Religious holidays are not only enjoyable, but controversial. For decades American citizens have debated whether towns may erect nativity scenes on public property. We now have a body of law that governs this issue. The basis of the debate is the First Amendment of...
by Wen-ti Tsen | Jan 5, 2009 | The Public Humanist
Amongst Zen Buddhist lore, there is a mendicant monk who goes from village to village collecting useless things. He hauls them in a large cloth sack, wherefore his name, Hotei, meaning “cloth bag.” When he comes around, children follow him. When he sees...
by Martin Newhouse | Jan 8, 2009 | The Public Humanist
The Hague is the seat of the Dutch government, although it is not actually Holland’s capital (that honor belongs to Amsterdam). It also functions as the center of a system of international courts and tribunals, established since World War II, that function...
