Culture – Page 37 – New Humanist

The ethics of the terraces

In football's murky moral world, where should fans draw the line?

Do modern liberal values have their origins in religious tradition?

Review: The Poorer Nations by Vijay Prashad.

Tim Minchin may be happy making big commercial films and musicals – but he’s also a man with a mission.

In The Americans, Soviet spies pose as a US family. The subversive flourish is that we are cheering for their success.

A prolific novelist and essayist, Muriel Spark disdained sentimentality – yet this masks just how strange her writing could be.

Culture is neither passively consumed, nor handed down from on high, as the work of Stuart Hall and Richard Hoggart reminds us.

The best reaction to a man who courts controversy is total apathy.

News of a 24-hour atheist TV channel in the US was met with derision, but actually, it is eminently reasonable.

What science can tell us about the universe, Tim Minchin, remembering Stuart Hall, the "Trojan Horse" scandal, and much more