Why do we use reason to reach nonsensical conclusions?
Q&A with Hugo Mercier and Dan Sperber, authors of a new book about the evolution of reason.
Ideas
In search of whiteness
Identity politics is back with a vengeance in 2017 – but one particular kind of identity is often left unexplored. Lola Okolosie and Vron Ware ask why.
How we invented nature
Today we take it for granted that something called “nature” exists. But the concept owes much to a Prussian adventurer
Berlusconi and post-truth politics, the Rojava experiment, and the future of humanity
The best long-reads from the New Humanist this month.
Charles Taylor: How to win the argument
Community and tradition don’t have to be set against migration, change and difference, argues the philosopher Charles Taylor.
What Silvio Berlusconi tells us about “post-truth” politics
Donald Trump’s populism has a striking precedent. So what can we learn from the Berlusconi era?
Derrida vs. the rationalists, truth in the age of bullshit, and the politics of humanism
The best long-reads from the New Humanist this month.
“We need critical reflection, individually as well as in the company of others”
Q&A with Nobel Prize winning economist Amartya Sen.
The age of bullshit
We’ve all done it. You say what you have to say to get things done, with little regard for the truth. But does it matter?
When is a ban not a ban?
Cries of censorship followed reports that London students were demanding white philosophers be dropped from the curriculum. But there was more to the story.