Origins of our species: the winter 2018 New Humanist
Out now - featuring Julian Baggini, Angela Saini, Adam Rutherford and more.
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Atheist bloggers in Bangladesh are still under threat
After a spate of murders in 2015, freethinkers still face the dual pressures of fundamentalist threats and official persecution.
“The modern faith in democracy is sometimes perverse”
Q&A with James Miller, author of "Can Democracy Work?"
“In Northern Ireland, many shy away from reliving the nightmare”
Q&A with Deric Henderson and Ivan Little, editors of "Reporting the Troubles: Journalists Tell Their Stories of the Northern Ireland Conflict"
We’ve digitised our archive – and it goes back to 1884!
From Bertrand Russell to Iris Murdoch, George Bernard Shaw to Amartya Sen – we’re pleased to announce that New Humanist‘s print archive, going back to 1884, has now been digitised…
What humans can learn from termites
Q&A with Lisa Margonelli, author of "Underbug: An Obsessive Tale of Termites and Technology".
The battle for legal humanist marriages in Northern Ireland continues
In the latest ruling by the Court of Appeal, Laura Lacole and Eunan O’Kane won the right for their wedding to be recognised as lawful.
The destruction of religious pluralism in India
There is anxiety that four million Bengali speakers in the Indian state of Assam could be rendered stateless overnight.
“To understand magnetism is to understand how the universe and Earth came to be”
Q&A with Alanna Mitchell, author of "The Spinning Magnet".
“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"
The problem with identity politics
Q&A with Asad Haider, author of "Mistaken Identity: Race and Class in the Age of Trump"
“We are in the middle of the fight”: the globalisation of LGBT rights
Q&A with Frédéric Martel, author of "Global Gay: How Gay Culture is Changing the World"