Welcome to the productivity prison
Working from home increasingly means accepting intrusive forms of AI surveillance. But these systems are troublingly unscientific and unethical.
Ideas
Russia’s forgotten pacifists
While support for the military surges, it's instructive to remember Russia’s pacifist history.
Let them wear hats
In 1925, Turkey banned the fez. Death and defiance soon followed.
Book Review: The New Silk Roads
A masterful mapping out of a new world order centred around China.
Q&A: Tom Oliver
Is the individual self an illusion?
Book review: The Far Right Today
Cas Mudde's exploration of the right-wing resurgence should ring alarm bells all over the globe.
Against forgetting
The way we memorialise historic injustices shines a light on contemporary power.
The chains of the past
Black people are overrepresented in the psychiatric system. Could the controversial theory of inherited trauma help explain why?
A manifesto against the apocalypse
Srećko Horvat's latest book is a passionate call for a new radical internationalism.
What makes us who we are? The summer 2020 New Humanist
Out now – featuring Cal Flyn on designer babies, Giovanni Tiso on the great DNA grab and Ayo Awokoya on inherited trauma. Is the future written in our genes?