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title: "The Autumn 2016 New Humanist is out now!"
date: "2016-08-18T09:26:09+01:00"
modified: "2016-08-18T09:26:09+01:00"
url: "https://newhumanist.org.uk/2016/08/18/the-autumn-2016-new-humanist-is-out-now/"
post_id: 6558
categories: ["Uncategorised"]
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# The Autumn 2016 New Humanist is out now!

![Cover](https://newhumanist.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/images/1608-Cover-web.jpg)

The Autumn 2016 issue of New Humanist is on sale now! You can find it in branches of WH Smith at mainline train stations, airports and selected high street stores.

*\*\* Autumn 2016 launch with Owen Hatherley and Dawn Foster on 30 August:[ get your tickets now](/articles/5064/autumn-2016-issue-launch-party-30-august) \*\**

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Highlights include:

Cover story – A new threat to free choice: **Rosa Ellis** investigates how anti-abortion protesters got organised.

> In 1992 a man from Texas called Mark Crutcher compiled an 86-page document titled *Firestorm: A Guerrilla Strategy for Pro-life America*. He argued that it was unlikely that Roe v Wade would be repealed, so instead anti-abortionists should use other means. As he put it: “Today, we have opportunities before us which, if properly exploited, could result in an America where abortion may indeed be perfectly legal, but no one can get one.”

 **PLUS:**

- The myth of the self-hating homophobe: **Alex Macpherson** on the aftermath of the Orlando shooting
- **James Bridle** on the dangers of Big Data
- The last Soviet city. **Owen Hatherley** on the rebuilding that took place after the Chernobyl nuclear disaster
- **Niki Seth-Smith** reviews Patrick Kingsley’s *The New Odyssey* and other books on the refugee crisis
- Should your decision to give to charity be led by the heart or the head? **Toby Lichtig** explores
- **Samira Shackle** reports on Pakistan’s madrasas and the fight to win them back from extremists
- Why is the Sun hot? **Marcus Chown** explains
- You might already be living in a dystopia, by **Ray Filar**
- **Sally Feldman** on the cult of celebrity diets
- Who gets to feel guilty? **Reni Eddo-Lodge** on racism and historical guilt
- **Richard Scorer** on the battle for control of the US Supreme Court
- The 100-year story of how gravitational waves were discovered, by **Tosin Thompson**
- **Alice Bloch** reviews Martha Nussbaum’s latest work, “On Anger”
- New poems; our contributors explore Brexit; columns from Michael Rosen and Laurie Taylor; cartoon by Grizelda; book reviews; cryptic crossword and Chris Maslanka’s quiz

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