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The Humanist Hour

The Humanist Hour (HH) Audio Podcast is a monthly one-hour talk show produced by the American Humanist Association. Every episode of the HH Audio Podcast explores a different area of humanist thought,... Read more

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The Humanist Hour #213: Growing Up Humanist

The Humanist Hour #213: Growing Up Humanist

Today's adolescent humanists in the U.S. aren't the first generation of young people to be raised in a nonreligious phil... Read more

21 Sep 2016

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The Humanist Hour #212: Lauren Lane on Skepticon and Rethinking Conferences

The Humanist Hour #212: Lauren Lane on Skepticon and Rethinking Conferences

Skepticon is an unusual conference in several ways. It started as a student-run event that survived its founders' gradua... Read more

14 Sep 2016

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The Humanist Hour #211: Noelle George on Foundation Beyond Belief

The Humanist Hour #211: Noelle George on Foundation Beyond Belief

We like to say that we’re “good without a god,” but the fact of the matter is that we’re not always very organized about... Read more

7 Sep 2016

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The Humanist Hour #210: Miri Mogilevsky on Sex Positivity and Teaching Consent

The Humanist Hour #210: Miri Mogilevsky on Sex Positivity and Teaching Consent

Sex positivity sounds like a wonderful thing, but do you really know what it is? As a social movement, it's older than y... Read more

31 Aug 2016

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The Humanist Hour #209: The Intersection of Humanism and Social Justice Work

The Humanist Hour #209: The Intersection of Humanism and Social Justice Work

The concept of social justice is enjoying a renaissance. That doesn't necessarily translate into action, however. Even p... Read more

24 Aug 2016

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The Humanist Hour #208: Juhem Navarro-Rivera on Changing Demographics and Changing Politics

The Humanist Hour #208: Juhem Navarro-Rivera on Changing Demographics and Changing Politics

There is a significant portion of the U.S. electorate this year who seem determined to "take back their country". It's r... Read more

17 Aug 2016

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The Humanist Hour #207: Kelly McCullough on Building Religion through Stories

The Humanist Hour #207: Kelly McCullough on Building Religion through Stories

Kelly McCullough is a fantasy and science fiction author with twelve novels under his belt to date. Despite being raised... Read more

10 Aug 2016

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The Humanist Hour #206: Alix Jules on the Politics of Racial Resentment

The Humanist Hour #206: Alix Jules on the Politics of Racial Resentment

The 2016 U.S. presidential election has turned into something that wasn't supposed to be able to happen anymore. We’re s... Read more

3 Aug 2016

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The Humanist Hour #205: Examining Honor Culture and Violence in Islam

The Humanist Hour #205: Examining Honor Culture and Violence in Islam

Earlier this month, model and activist Qandeel Baloch was found dead in her home in Pakistan. She'd been drugged and mur... Read more

27 Jul 2016

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The Humanist Hour #204: Callie Wright on the “Gaytheist Manifesto”

The Humanist Hour #204: Callie Wright on the “Gaytheist Manifesto”

When Callie Wright came out as a trans woman in 2013, there weren't a lot of queer voices in the secular movement that f... Read more

20 Jul 2016

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The Humanist Hour #202: Amanda Marcotte on Feminist Topics in Current Politics

The Humanist Hour #202: Amanda Marcotte on Feminist Topics in Current Politics

Any year in which we have the first female major party presumptive nominee for president is going to be a busy one in fe... Read more

6 Jul 2016

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The Humanist Hour #200: Women in Secularism & Secular Woman

The Humanist Hour #200: Women in Secularism & Secular Woman

In spring of 2012, the secular movement was a different place for women. We were grossly underrepresented on stage, in p... Read more

22 Jun 2016

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The Humanist Hour #199: Greta Christina on "The Way of the Heathen"

The Humanist Hour #199: Greta Christina on "The Way of the Heathen"

"So you're an atheist. Now what? The way we deal with life—with love and sex, pleasure and death, reality and making stu... Read more

15 Jun 2016

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The Humanist Hour #197: Josiah Mannion and Baba Brinkman on Art and Activism

The Humanist Hour #197: Josiah Mannion and Baba Brinkman on Art and Activism

Art has the potential to reach people in ways no simple argument can. As such, it's always been harnessed for activist p... Read more

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The Humanist Hour #195: David Cobb on Corporate Personhood

The Humanist Hour #195: David Cobb on Corporate Personhood

David Cobb is a lawyer and co-founder of Move to Amend, a coalition dedicated to winning a constitutional amendment to f... Read more

18 May 2016

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The Humanist Hour #194: American Humanist Association’s 75th Anniversary Conference

The Humanist Hour #194: American Humanist Association’s 75th Anniversary Conference

This year is a special one for the American Humanist Association – it marks 75 years since our founding. To celebrate, o... Read more

4 May 2016

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The Humanist Hour #193: Carrie Poppy and Ross Blocher

The Humanist Hour #193: Carrie Poppy and Ross Blocher

"We show up so you don't have to."That's the tagline for the Oh No, Ross and Carrie podcast. If you've ever wanted to ge... Read more

20 Apr 2016

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The Humanist Hour #192: The Humanism of Star Trek, with Susan Sackett & Scott Lohman

The Humanist Hour #192: The Humanism of Star Trek, with Susan Sackett & Scott Lohman

Gene Roddenberry was openly humanist, and his best-known creation, Star Trek, reflects his views in many ways. Our guest... Read more

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The Humanist Hour #191: Sincere Kirabo on Building Social Justice

The Humanist Hour #191: Sincere Kirabo on Building Social Justice

Over the past year or so, the American Humanist Association has been making changes to reflect its commitment to social ... Read more

23 Mar 2016

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The Humanist Hour #188: Black Nonbelievers: The Author's Circle

The Humanist Hour #188: Black Nonbelievers: The Author's Circle

In this episode, Jenn Wilson introduces our new producer, Stephanie Zvan, and Kim Ellington talks to Frank Edwards, Rona... Read more

10 Feb 2016

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