Tag: Humanism

  • Nation & World

    Wielding data against doom and gloom

    In his 2011 book, “The Better Angels of Our Nature: Why Violence Has Declined,” Harvard psychologist Steven Pinker argued that despite common assumptions, violence has dropped dramatically from biblical times…

    11 minutes
  • Nation & World

    Rebel with a cause

    Before Greg Epstein became chaplain at Harvard’s Humanist Chaplaincy, he was a rock star. Now he’s written a book on Humanism, a religious philosophy that rejects supernaturalism while encouraging virtuous actions and decisions.

    2 minutes
  • Nation & World

    Author McGowan is honored as ‘2008 Harvard Humanist of the Year’

    Can parents raise moral children without religion? Greg Epstein M.T.S. ’07 thinks so. He’s the Humanist chaplain at Harvard, and has just finished writing a book due out next fall. Its title: “Good Without God.”

    4 minutes