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• What's the point of satire? New Humanist presents Martin Rowson and Laurie Taylor

  Join us on 29 November to launch our Winter 2016 edition

• In a word: crisis

  Michael Rosen's column on language and its uses.

• Effective altruism, "ancient wisdom", and the cult of celebrity diets

  The best long-reads from the New Humanist this month.

• Are you living in a dystopia?

  Dystopias help us understand the world we live in; but what happens when concepts like “precrime” become a reality?

• Book review: Anger and Forgiveness

  As the century rages on, we clearly need reminding that anger is no good.

• Postcards from the past: what's wrong with "ancient wisdom"?

  Writing on “ancient wisdom” now comprises a genre of its own. Is this an uncritical attitude to the thinkers of the past?

• The era of "post-truth politics"

  Expert opinions and rational analyses were tossed aside frighteningly easily during the referendum campaign.

• The Autumn 2016 New Humanist is out now!

  A new threat to free choice; what's wrong with Big Data?; Inside Pakistan's madrasas; Why ancient wisdom is a myth; and more...

• Russia's Stalinist revival, inside the detention industry, and St Augustine

  The best long-reads from the New Humanist this month.

• In a word: academy

  Michael Rosen's column on the uses and misuses of language,