The Humanist

{{short description|American bi-monthly magazine}}

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|title = The Humanist

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|editor = Jennifer Bardi

|editor_title = Editor

|frequency = Bi-monthly

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|category = {{hlist | Secularism | humanism}}

|company = American Humanist Association

|country = United States

|firstdate = Spring 1941

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|based = Washington, D.C., US

|language = English

|website = {{URL|https://thehumanist.com/}}

|issn = 0018-7399

|oclc = 1587384

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The Humanist is an American bi-monthly magazine published in Washington, D.C. It was founded in 1941 by American Humanist Association. It covers topics in science, religion, media, technology, politics and popular culture and provides ethical critique and commentary on them. The magazine was originally published under the name of The New Humanist from 1928 to 1940 by a fellowship of American humanists based at the University of Chicago.{{cite book |title=Organized Secularism in the United States: New Directions in Research |editor1=Ryan T. Cragun |editor2 = Lori L. Fazzino |editor3=Christel Manning |page= 65 |publisher=Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co |location = Berlin/Boston |date=November 7, 2017}} The magazine has a small circulation, read principally by the three thousand members of the American Humanist Association.{{cite book |editor1=Martin E. Marty |editor2 = R. Scott Appleby |date=January 5, 1997 |title=Fundamentalisms and Society: Reclaiming the Sciences, the Family, and Education |location = Chicago |publisher=University of Chicago Press |page= 459}}{{Update inline|date=February 2022}}