That don’t impress me much
Jesus turned water into wine, but have you seen David Blaine's tricks?
Rationalism, Atheism & Humanism
Better, faster, stronger: New Humanist spring 2023 out now
Out now – featuring Peter Ward on living forever, Anna Lembke on pleasure and addiction, and Peter Salmon on the moral duty to pump iron.
Looking back on 2022: blind faith comes in many forms
These are extraordinary times, teaching us once more that blind faith comes in many forms: not only established religion, but also conspiracy theory and political ideology.
Laying claim to Christmas
Let's revel in the rich tradition of mid-winter festivities, celebrated long before they were sanitised by the Christians.
Evolution revolution: New Humanist winter 2022 out now
Out now – featuring Jay Owens on non-human intelligence, Peter Forbes on a new theory of the origins of life, and Alison Bashford on the secret history of the Huxley…
Filming Kurt Vonnegut, the “Christ-loving atheist”
A new documentary on the counter-cultural novelist, directed by Robert Weide, has kindness at its heart.
The Rushdie affair is not a simple matter of free speech
Religious fundamentalism is on the rise. In Britain, we must fight it by acknowledging the tensions in our own communities.
Making sense of war: New Humanist autumn 2022 out now
Out now – featuring Amy Zegart on the future of spycraft, Peter Salmon on propaganda and Amanda Coakley on the Christian right's battle for Europe.
Losing our humanities
Rishi Sunak's comments on "low value" degrees come off the back of a round of cuts to arts and the humanities. What do we lose when these subjects become the…
A hundred years of heresy
A century after its publication, is James Joyce’s "Ulysses" still the greatest work of humanist literature?