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• "Borders are man-made fictions, inequality is a man-made reality for millions"

  Q&A with Lyndsey Stonebridge, author of "Placeless People"

• Scaling the tower

  A new book by Niall Ferguson offers a simple and apparently scientific way to understand history. Does the analysis stand up?

• Origins of our species: the winter 2018 New Humanist

  Out now - featuring Julian Baggini, Angela Saini, Adam Rutherford and more.

• In a word: well-being

  Michael Rosen's column on language and its uses.

• The politics of forgiveness

  What was discussed when Jewish poet Paul Celan met Nazi-connected philosopher Martin Heidegger?

• Can we learn from history?

  Q&A with Alex Rosenberg, author of "How History Gets Things Wrong".

• "Humankind is unique in its incapacity to learn from experience"

  Q&A with political philosopher John Gray,

• Who has the right to remember?

  The Windrush scandal demonstrates the ethical case for libraries and archivists.

• Migrations: the autumn 2018 New Humanist

  Out now - How movement shapes our world.

• "The most important challenge of our day is to escape the borders of nation states"

  Q&A with Lorenzo Marsili and Niccolo Milanese, authors of "Citizens of Nowhere: How Europe Can Be Saved From Itself"