Bangladesh’s student revolution unleashed chaos and sectarian violence. Can the coming elections renew its democracy?

As white Christian nationalists seek to reshape the United States, we hear from the frontlines of the resistance ...

It’s been a month or two since we got back. Out dog walking, I bumped into one of my neighbours who had been on the trip.

Palestinian literature is going through a very exciting juncture. There are so many new voices coming out. It’s like a dam is ...

This article is a preview from the Spring 2015 edition of New Humanist. You can find out more and subscribe here. I’d arranged to meet the sorceress at 4pm, but I was running late. Hurrying past ...

This article is a preview from the Autumn 2016 edition of New Humanist. You can find out more and subscribe here. In a 2008 article in Wired magazine entitled “The End of Theory”, Chris Anderson ...

In the early 1970s, I was a pupil at a Protestant primary school in working-class west Belfast. Considering the mayhem that was raging nearby – the rioting, bombings and shootings – the teachers did a ...

Octopuses are having a moment. So are slime moulds and honeybees. Mushrooms are in vogue. After 250 years of humanity (well, some of humanity…) confidently atop the great pyramid of being, we in the ...

How should a humanist live? Wary of religious dogma, humanists are often reluctant to talk about how one “ought” to live. Secularism, a reaction to the political dominance of this dogma, is focused on ...

Satire today is dominated by a narrow elite. No longer a threat to authority, it is a means for the establishment to protect itself. Paul Merton and Ian Hislop, illustrated as part of the set for the ...