The greenhouse effect is essential for life on Earth – even if human activity has pushed it to dangerous levels ...

We meet the novelists behind a new wave of stories exploring the sexual fantasies of midlife women ...

Intellectuals and the Crisis of Politics in the Interwar Period and Beyond (Oxford University Press) by Balázs Trencsényi ...

Exiled Turkish journalist Ece Temelkuran offers a series of letters to those who, for whatever reason, are displaced ...

The New Silk Roads: The Present and Future of the World (Bloomsbury) by Peter Frankopan We are are living through what has been termed the “Asian Century”. In 2020, Asian economies will be larger than ...

Meticulously scientific and scientist-friendly, Daniel Dennett is first and foremost a philosopher, and this is the latest foray in his 50-year quest to establish an evolutionary understanding of the ...

This piece accompanies Marcus Chown’s feature on the discovery of cosmic background radiation, from the Spring 2015 edition of New Humanist. Perhaps the most famous accidental discovery of all is ...

With the job of Prime Minister up for grabs, and the leadership race amongst the Conservatives tightening, the conversation in England has turned to a divisive subject: the value of a university ...

Wooden posts of an old pier, with Lindisfarne Castle beyond. Credit: Alamy Mons Gaudium, the mountain of joy, was the name given by pilgrims to the hill from which they could spot Jerusalem for the ...

If you feel pressure about your body, you’re not alone. Women have always had it bad – but now the health and beauty industries are coming for men, too. And the pressures are constantly deepening. In ...

This article is a preview from the Winter 2017 edition of New Humanist. Death is a fundamental feature of our lives. Fear of death has been present in most cultures for a very long time. It is a basic ...

On paper, Buddhism looks pretty good. It has a philosophical subtlety married to a stated devotion to tolerance that makes it stand out amongst the world religions as uniquely not awful. Even ...