Evolution can happen at the level of species, but also at the level of deep time or the Earth itself. It can also apply to ideas and individual personalities. This issue of New Humanist explores the broader sense of evolution and all its messy meanings.
A new documentary on the counter-cultural novelist, directed by Robert Weide, has kindness at its heart.
Salman Rushdie has narrowly escaped a murderous attempt on his life. But the Rushdie affair is about more than the simple issue of free speech.
Storytelling has always been a crucial component of war. New Humanist autumn 2022 explores how the stories we tell ourselves and each-other might have profound geopolitical implications.
Rishi Sunak's comments on "low value" degrees come off the back of a round of cuts to arts and the humanities. What do we lose when these subjects become the preserve of the rich?
A century after its publication, is Joyce’s epic still the greatest work of humanist literature?
Out now – featuring Carl Rhodes on woke capitalism, Alice Bell on climate action gone wrong, Brett Scott on the war on cash and Semmi W. on biotech and stolen cells.
Andrew Copson talks to Steven Pinker about his latest book on rationality. Why does the concept leave so many people cold?
Out now – featuring Zoe Holman on the battle over childbirth, Ray Filar on the new threat to sex workers, Jem Bartholomew on the right to die, and Alex Riley on the electroshock revolution.
We talk to Professor A.C.Grayling about his new book “The History of Philosophy: Three Millennia of Thought from the West and Beyond”