The ISHV Cyber Think Tank is a digest of articles, interviews, and other musings compiled by Robert B. Tapp.

Humanists will want to sign up and stay in touch with the new Global Secular Council. read
An atheist less likely to get presidential votes, according to latest Pew survey. But current rejection percentage lowers slightly. read
Jeff Sharlet interviews Barbara Ehrenreich on her new book. read
Noam Chomsky’s unique role as a public intellectual is well-.summarized by Henry Giroux. Chomsky has “addressed how the new reign of neoliberal capital is normalized not only through military and economic relations but also through the production of new forms of subjectivity organized around the enslavement of debt, the security-surveillance state, the corporatization of higher education, the rise of finance capital, and the powerful corporate-controlled cultural apparatuses that give new power and force to the simultaneously educative and repressive nature of politics.” read
Steve Williams discusses 10 things he has learned since coming out as an atheist. read
Walter Isaacson, Jefferson Lecture “The Intersection of the Humanities and the Sciences” (1hr 16 min). watch
Margaret Fuller. Kim Phillips-Fein reviews John Matteson’s new biography, reminding humanists of our adopted forebears. read
Paul Braterman reviews Michael Brosnin, “The Bible Code.” read
Alain de Botton and his critics, dexcribed by Sam Knight. read