Robert Prevost's election as Pope brought hope to reformers. But will he push for peace and resist ultra-conservative ...

The Autumn 2025 issue of New Humanist is on sale now! This issue is all about how the battle over space – playing out unseen ...

They fuck you up, your mum and dad / They may not mean to, but they do / They fill you with the faults they had / And add ...

This article is a preview from the Winter 2017 edition of New Humanist. My personal philosophical trajectory can be summarised as follows: (mildly) Catholic by birth; atheist at 15; humanist until 50; ...

Most scientific breakthroughs take years of research – but often, serendipity provides the final push, as these historic discoveries show .

“Truth’s a menace, science is a public danger,” says Mustapha Mond, the “Controller” in Aldous Huxley’s iconic dystopian novel Brave New World. “That’s why we so carefully limit the scope of its ...

The great Buddha statue in Nha Trang, Vietnam by Petr Ruzicka On paper, Buddhism looks pretty good. It has a philosophical subtlety married to a stated devotion to tolerance that makes it stand out ...

Can the Integrated Education Act help to break the segregation of Catholic and Protestant education in Northern Ireland?

The capture of Constantinople by Crusaders in 1204, as seen by the Italian Renaissance painter Tintoretto (1518-94) This article is a preview from the Spring 2015 edition of New Humanist. You can find ...

A century ago, European empires dominated much of the planet. Gurminder K Bhambra and Charlotte L Riley ask what we can learn from the past.

David Reich’s pioneering study of ancient DNA is set to revolutionise our ideas about human migration and identity.