Secular funerals, Tim Minchin’s mission, and South Africa’s occult economy: our top 5 long-reads
The best long-reads from the New Humanist this month.
Ideas
What does it mean to remember the Holocaust?
The row over a new memorial on Budapest prompts a personal reflection from Toby Lichtig.
What we really know about the universe, the Trojan Horse scandal, and the politics of everyday life: our top 5 long-reads
The best long-reads from the New Humanist this month.
Can prejudice ever be eliminated?
Stephen Eric Bronner, the author of "The Bigot", discusses the defining features of bigotry and how it can be tackled.
The politics of everyday life
Culture is neither passively consumed, nor handed down from on high, as the work of Stuart Hall and Richard Hoggart reminds us.
The scary truth? There’s nobody in charge
Belief in conspiracies surely comes from the same place as belief in gods – the human need to reassure ourselves that the world is ordered.
Maoist cults, “sextremists”, and pacifism: the best New Humanist summer reads
1.Bertrand Russell’s lofty pacifism He spent a lifetime opposing war – but how well does the legacy of our most famous peace activist stand up to scrutiny? Jonathan Rée considers…
Book review: Isaac and Isaiah by David Caute
A compelling, unusual study in intellectual history.
9 things we learned this week
From robotic hands to crowd-funded literature, from extremism in schools to assisted dying reform, these are the subjects we've been talking about over the last seven days
Bertrand Russell’s lofty pacifism
He spent a lifetime opposing war – but how well does the legacy of our most famous peace activist stand up to scrutiny? By Jonathan Rée