What the Christians did for us
Do modern liberal values have their origins in religious tradition?
Culture
What is the alternative to globalisation?
Review: The Poorer Nations by Vijay Prashad.
Tim Minchin: “It just happens that I’m right”
Tim Minchin may be happy making big commercial films and musicals – but he’s also a man with a mission.
Rooting for the enemy: The Americans
In The Americans, Soviet spies pose as a US family. The subversive flourish is that we are cheering for their success.
Oddballs, loners and voyeurs
A prolific novelist and essayist, Muriel Spark disdained sentimentality – yet this masks just how strange her writing could be.
The politics of everyday life
Culture is neither passively consumed, nor handed down from on high, as the work of Stuart Hall and Richard Hoggart reminds us.
The rise and fall of Robin Thicke
The best reaction to a man who courts controversy is total apathy.
My seven surprisingly okay hours with Atheist TV
News of a 24-hour atheist TV channel in the US was met with derision, but actually, it is eminently reasonable.
Autumn 2014 New Humanist is out now!
What science can tell us about the universe, Tim Minchin, remembering Stuart Hall, the "Trojan Horse" scandal, and much more
Never meet your heroes
In my youth, I saw an incredible aura around professional footballers. I only occasionally went to games, where they were separated from me by touchlines and advertising hoardings, so they…