Empire: the summer 2017 New Humanist
Out now - how a history of conquest shapes the present
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Can humans survive on earth?
Professor Stephen Hawking claims we must colonise another planet in the next 100 years.
What is the point of education?
Q&A with Lawrence Busch, author of a new book on the neoliberal takeover of higher education.
How we invented nature, in search of whiteness, and becoming British
The best long-reads from the New Humanist this month.
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What do algorithms know about you?
Q&A with Ed Finn, author of "What Algorithms Want: Imagination in the Age of Computing".
"We are familiar with the other but only in negative terms"
Q&A with sociologist Nilüfer Göle, author of "The Daily Lives of Muslims".
Why do we use reason to reach nonsensical conclusions?
Q&A with Hugo Mercier and Dan Sperber, authors of a new book about the evolution of reason.
Berlusconi and post-truth politics, the Rojava experiment, and the future of humanity
The best long-reads from the New Humanist this month.
"Secularism isn’t about the absence of religion, it’s about the structure of the state"
Q&A with Yasmin Rehman, veteran campaigner recently named Secularist of the Year.
Derrida vs. the rationalists, truth in the age of bullshit, and the politics of humanism
The best long-reads from the New Humanist this month.
"Without the evolution of locomotion there would be no sex, no photosynthesis, no ecology"
Q&A with evolutionary biologist Matt Wilkinson.
Age of extremes: the spring 2017 New Humanist
Out now - a special edition on democracy and its discontents.
Malta's humanists and the battle against the Catholic establishment
Remembering Ramon Casha, chair of the Malta Humanist Society, who died in January 2017.
Twenty years of Brass Eye
Chris Morris's satirical programme took aim at ignorance and hypocrisy.
"Shyness is very difficult to define precisely because it’s so contradictory"
Q&A with Joe Moran, author of "Shrinking Violets: A Field Guide to Shyness".