What the Stoics did for us
Could a 2,300-year-old Graeco-Roman philosophy be the key to a happy 21st-century life?
Ideas
Capitalism: the winter 2017 New Humanist
Out now - how the system shapes the way we think.
Why does psychoanalysis use the couch?
Q&A with Nathan Kravis, author of "On the Couch: A Repressed History of the Analytic Couch from Plato to Freud"
“We live in a culture of ignorance”
Q&A with Daniel DeNicola, author of "Understanding Ignorance".
The business of death in a growing world
As the population increases, so does the number of corpses – and the way we dispose of the dead may be about to change.
Making a killing: examining the arms trade
An examination of Britain’s arms trade tells us who we are as a country and what our role in the world really is.
The truth about brainwashing
The term "brainwashing" is often used as a catch-all explanation when motivations are too difficult to understand.
The reality of racism in modern Britain
A bold new book by Reni Eddo-Lodge tackles race and racism in Britain both past and present.
Does literature help or hinder the fight for equality?
Today, the concept of human rights is being dangerously undermined. Does literature offer us a way back from the brink?
What makes maths beautiful?
For an experienced mathematician, the greatest equations are beautiful as well as useful. Can the rest of us see what they see?