What a way to make a living
Today, our sense of identity is intimately linked to our work. It’s a dangerous trend, warns the Italian philosopher Bifo.
Ideas
Free will, Game of Thrones, and a journey to the centre of the Earth
The best long-reads from the New Humanist this month.
Do we have free will? The atheist case for determinism
Accepting that we are governed not by free will but by the processes of the body could provide a positive vision for society.
Is there a choice?
Philosophers and scientists have long agonised over the question of free will. Two new books, by Julian Baggini and John Gray, offer some very different answers.
Amartya Sen on the battleground of history, religious free schools, and Russia’s faith healers
The best long-reads from the New Humanist this month.
The Summer 2015 New Humanist is out now!
Jobs and the mind; Michael Rosen on language; free will and biology; the rise and rise of faith schools; the politics of Game of Thrones and more...
Fictional character in the social media age, war photography, and serendipitous science
Who is Eleni Haifa? In the cover essay from our Spring issue, Paul Mason explores how the rise of information technology is transforming the way we think about human character.…
Who is Eleni Haifa?
Paul Mason on how the rise of information technology is transforming the way we think about human character.
Religion and violence, Jimmy Mubenga, and TV melancholia
The best long-reads from the New Humanist this month.
Travels in China, the Enlightenment and the West, and Charlie Hebdo
The best long-reads from the New Humanist this month.