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.
Ideas
Age of extremes: the spring 2017 New Humanist
Out now - a special edition on democracy and its discontents.
Leaving the priesthood, trouble at sea, and the nuclear war that never was
The best long-reads from the New Humanist this month.
Derrida vs. the rationalists
Derrida’s famously difficult thought is often dismissed as “post-modern” nonsense. Is there more to it than might first appear?
In a word: grammar
Michael Rosen's column on language and its uses
The legacy of Islamic philosophy
Although they worked within a religious framework, many philosophers in the Islamic world were pioneers of rational thought.
Our favourite New Humanist long reads of 2016
Grieving online, the myth of human nature, and the mirage of big data: our top 10 long-reads.
New Humanist’s books of 2016
Our pick of the books we wrote about this year.
The Winter 2016 New Humanist is out now!
Danger in the deep; Zionism, anti-Semitism and the left; what's the meaning of modesty; Derrida vs the rationalists; and more...
How offence taking became a political weapon
A Q&A with Cherian George, author of Hate Spin: The Manufacture of Religious Offense and its Threat to Democracy