All in the mind
Terry Eagleton and Roger Scruton are the latest in a line of thinkers to suggest that, without religion, something is missing in our lives. They’re wrong, argues Peter Watson
Ideas
Win tickets to see Josie Long at this year’s Stoke Newington Literary Festival
New Humanist magazine is very pleased to be media partner with this year’s Stoke Newington Literary Festival, a three-day extravaganza in north London featuring many NH friends and contributors, including…
Summer 2014 New Humanist out now! War and peace, Josie Long, Peter Tatchell, Lars von Trier, and much more
Get six months of New Humanist for just £1! (UK readers only. See below for further details.) The Summer 2014 issue of New Humanist is on sale now in High…
Win tickets to this year’s How the Light Gets In festival
How the Light Gets In, the world’s largest philosophy festival, returns this year with a glittering programme of debates, talks, comedy and live music – including New Humanist’s commissioning editor…
Golden girls
A generation of feminist writers is approaching old age. But the same debates, about beauty, wealth and power, rage on, writes Sally Feldman
Building the future
The visionaries of the post-war era aimed to revolutionise urban living. Is it time we rediscovered their utopian spirit? asks Douglas Murphy
Fail better
The films of Adam Curtis tell the histories of utopian ideas gone disastrously wrong. So why does he think we need more of them? Daniel Trilling meets the acclaimed documentary…
In defence of hedonism
Epicurus was far from the lover of fine food his name now suggests. In fact, his ideas liberated his followers from fear of the gods, writes David Sedley
Let’s stop being so embarrassed about food
Good cuisine has the power to bring joy to all. Talking about it should not be dismissed as a middle-class indulgence, says Julian Baggini
In pursuit of happiness
A policy revolution is under way to improve our well-being. Are its motives genuine? Niki Seth-Smith reports