Michael Gerson, a columnist for the Washington Post, recently wrote a piece calling for a revival of humanism. Here is a brief excerpt of Gerson’s reflections:
Most Western societies, including the United States, have reached the stage of secularism without humanism. Our greatest efforts are spent on getting and keeping. Our defining creed is consumerism. Our memorials, according to T.S. Eliot, will be “the asphalt road and a thousand lost golf balls.”…What we need is a revival of humanism.
Read the full article here: https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/we-need-a-revival-of-humanism/2018/12/13/a13d7254-fef3-11e8-ad40-cdfd0e0dd65a_story.html?noredirect=on&utm_term=.a3dcc1d9e679&wpisrc=nl_opinions&wpmm=1