“Borders are man-made fictions, inequality is a man-made reality for millions”
Q&A with Lyndsey Stonebridge, author of "Placeless People"
Ideas
Scaling the tower
A new book by Niall Ferguson offers a simple and apparently scientific way to understand history. Does the analysis stand up?
Origins of our species: the winter 2018 New Humanist
Out now - featuring Julian Baggini, Angela Saini, Adam Rutherford and more.
In a word: well-being
Michael Rosen's column on language and its uses.
The politics of forgiveness
What was discussed when Jewish poet Paul Celan met Nazi-connected philosopher Martin Heidegger?
Can we learn from history?
Q&A with Alex Rosenberg, author of "How History Gets Things Wrong".
“Humankind is unique in its incapacity to learn from experience”
Q&A with political philosopher John Gray,
Who has the right to remember?
The Windrush scandal demonstrates the ethical case for libraries and archivists.
Migrations: the autumn 2018 New Humanist
Out now - How movement shapes our world.
“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"