Democracy under threat: The autumn New Humanist
Out now – featuring Peter Geoghegan on the US funders of European hate, Kaya Genç on Turkey’s Covid-19 clampdown and Ting Guo on divide and rule in Hong Kong.
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Book Review: Unbelievers
Alec Ryrie overlooks virtually all atheist and humanist thinkers in his history of unbelief.
From sea to table
Salt water farms offer a solution to climate change challenges, revolutionising how we grow food.
Insulting the Buddha
Award-winning writer Shakthika Sathkumara faces up to ten years in prison, sparking outcry and fierce debate in Sri Lanka over freedom of speech.
Welcome to the productivity prison
Working from home increasingly means accepting intrusive forms of AI surveillance. But these systems are troublingly unscientific and unethical.
How old is the moon?
A new study concludes that Earth's nearest neighbour is younger than we thought.
Hagia Sophia re-mosqued
The story of Istanbul's Aya Sofya, now once again a sacred space, holds a mirror up to the region's history and points to a rocky future.
Book review: The Immoral Majority
Ben Howe's polemic against Trump-supporting Christians gives us a rare insight into the evangelical split.
Leaving the black church
Audrey Simmons, a key member of the Association of Black Humanists, on the challenges faced by black apostates and the need to ensure humanism is welcoming to all.
A manifesto against the apocalypse
Srećko Horvat's latest book is a passionate call for a new radical internationalism.
“We need to make sure that lives are valued fairly”
Q&A with Howard Steven Friedman, author of "Ultimate Price: The Value We Place on Life".
AI antibiotics
The threat of antibiotic resistance is looming, but artificial intelligence may show the way forward
Wonderchicken
Evidence of a modern bird species living side by side with dinosaurs has been uncovered
Atheist Mubarak Bala may face a death sentence
The president of the Humanist Association of Nigeria has been arrested on charges of "blasphemy" against Islam