About
New Humanist is the London based magazine of the Rationalist Association, promoting reason, debate and free thought since 1885. On this website you can find archives going back 8 years, our blog, author biogs, a newsletter (sign upon the homepage) and our current issue.
New Humanist magazine is one of the world's oldest continuously published magazines (starting life as The Literary Review in 1885). During that time New Humanist has distinguished itself as a world leader in supporting and promoting humanism and rational inquiry and opposing religious dogma, irrationalism and bunkum wherever it is found.
A list of contributors includes great figures from past and present from HG Wells to Richard Dawkins, Eric Hobsbawm to Phillip Pullman, Polly Toynbee to Christopher Hitchens, Eileen Barker to Amartya Sen. The current editorial board includes broadcaster Laurie Taylor and Dean of Arts and Media at Westminster University Sally Feldman.
In addition the New Humanist website features daily updates and a lively weblog. New Humanist is published bi-monthly by the Rationalist Association, which also publishes books, the two most recent are: Humanism: An Introduction by Jim Herrick and The Blasphemy Depot: A History of the RPA by Bill Cooke.
Read the words of Hermann Bondi, former President of the RPA, on humanism
NH Staff
Caspar Melville is editor of New Humanist. He formerly worked for openDemocracy. His writing has appeared in The LA Times, Toronto Star, Sunday Telegraph, Village Voice and loads of obscure music magazines. He has a PhD in media from Goldsmith's College, London.
Judith Walker is New Humanist's Business Manager. She previously worked for the Irish music magazine Hot Press and the environmental journal the ENDS Report. She was a founder of the cartoon magazine Duck Soup, did a regular cartoon strip for The Sun and is a painter. Her cartoons also appear regularly in New Humanist.
Paul Sims is New Humanist's Editorial Assistant. He graduated from Oxford University, where he studied Modern History, in 2006, before moving to London to join New Humanist in 2007.