Round-up of the 20 best essays and podcasts published by New Humanist in 2021.
The first examples of "refugees" in the modern sense were the Protestants fleeing persecution in France. What else was it ascribed to?
The redemption story of Scrooge is a deeply humanistic one, and in it, Dickens was constructing a broad and subversive church.
Laurie Taylor discovered during his admissions interview for university that a little white lie could get you far.
President Biden's administration may present as less outwardly religious than others. But even so, US politics remains decidedly "Christian".
The novelist and essayist Eimear McBride spoke with us about objectification, disgust and the female body.
Maggie Gyllenhaal strikes gold with a film adaptation of Elena Ferrante’s "The Lost Daughter".
The British government seems to believe that we Brits have a "unique" sense of humour. But is such a notion even worth humouring?
The mass abuse of French children by Catholic clergymen is final proof of a permissible culture for paedophilia in the Church
A conversation with art historian John-Paul Stonard on what drove our ancestors' desire to create images.