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• What is there to know about ignorance?

  A new book of "ignorance studies" shows the importance of knowing about not knowing.

• Eternal life, poetry and the rational mind, and the question of sovereignty

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

• The question of sovereignty

  Debates over “national sovereignty” loom large over the EU referendum – but defining the concept is trickier than it seems.

• How do people gain - and keep - power?

  A Q&A with Dacher Keltner, author of a new book on the psychology of power.

• From fundamentalism to atheism, learning forgiveness, and the comedy of awkwardness

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

• The Summer 2016 New Humanist is out now!

  Who wants to live forever?; why poems are good for the rational mind; how Russia fell back in love with Stalin; listening to the universe; and more...

• In a word: regeneration

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

• Human nature, the road to liberation, and Einstein's riddles

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

• Gloria Steinem and the road to liberation

  This American feminist inspired a generation of women. What can her life tell us about today’s struggles for equality?

• "It would be good if we could learn to listen to reason again"

  A Q&A with James Garvey, author of a new book on the persuasion industry.