Literature has the potential to create conditions and cultures that facilitate important endings and beginnings, such as abolition, such as independence, such as the end of apartheid, the end of ...

The Windsor International Film Festival, which marked its 20-year anniversary last year, is trying something new with a free ...

Think of a mystery musical instrument. If a physicist is told the loudness of the sound it makes at every possible frequency, ...

The Jewish communist Ben Gold’s recently reissued 1944 novel, Your Comrade, Avreml Broide, offers a glimpse into a world in which a radical tradition of egalitarianism and cosmopolitanism overshadowed ...

ChatGPT and other AI tools are having a massive effect in schools, commerce, science, medicine and, increasingly, in the ...

M arrying a first cousin has been legal in Britain since Henry VIII broke with Rome in the 16th century. The practice faded ...

Theater review What: “A Crucible: A Puritanical Celebration of Witches and Turkeys.” A new comedy by The Humanist Project. Directed by Michael F. Toomey; musical performance and design, Mitchel ...

The wealth of Siena’s visual culture is represented with illuminated manuscripts; sculptures in marble, ivory, terracotta and walnut; reliquaries (containers for holy relics) and croziers (hooked ...

The film "Recognition of Man" explores the Renaissance era, highlighting the revival of classical ideals and the emergence of humanism in a medieval context. It emphasizes the transformation of ...

In humanism, human beings are considered independent, inherently good and capable of positive growth. One might look at these assumptions somewhat cynically – but it is hard to deny these qualities to ...

Freed from the mechanical efforts attached to translating, language experts can spend more time working on both accuracy and nuances, which is vital for understanding of culture, bridging the gap ...

In Humanist Vampire Seeking Consenting Suicidal Person, Canadian director and screenwriter Ariane Louis-Seize introduces us to Sasha, a teenage vampire with too much empathy to kill. Louis-Seize ...