Have postmodernist thinkers deconstructed truth?
Bruno Latour once sparked fury by questioning the way scientific facts are produced. Now he worries we’ve gone too far.
Ideas
“Solutions exist, and we can find better ones”
Q&A with linguist and cognitive scientist Steven Pinker.
Why the science fiction of my youth is disturbing me again
As our politics retreats from rationality, we must avoid complacency.
Climate and nature: the spring 2018 New Humanist
Out now - our writers on climate change.
In a word: referendum
Michael Rosen's column on language and its uses.
How the fear of death gave birth to religion
Death is an inescapable and intrinsic part of human existence and, in the end, there’s absolutely nothing to be scared of.
Swiped away
In the era of commercial dating apps, is the easy availability of sex dehumanising the experience?
Best of 2017: interviews and columns
New Humanist's top 10 interviews and columns this year.
Best of 2017: long reads
New Humanist's top 10 long reads this year.
Apocalyptic populism
From Donald Trump to Brexit, the establishment is under fierce attack. But political populism is not simply a challenge to the neoliberal order – it is a product of it.