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 ...

Listen to reason Intelligent thinking for turbulent times, from New Humanist magazine. Interviews with thinkers who speak to our age – on subjects including religion, race, politics, sex, tech, work ...

A new adaptation of Michael Crichton’s “Westworld” invites the audience to sympathise with its android characters.

Since the publication of The God Delusion a common response has been that Richard Dawkins’s depiction of religious believers is crude and one-dimensional, and that he misunderstands the subtleties of ...

This article is a preview from the Winter 2014 edition of New Humanist. You can find out more and subscribe here. There could be no more daunting intellectual task than setting out to write a history ...

David Olusoga is a British-Nigerian historian, author, presenter and BAFTA-winning filmmaker. He is professor of public history at the University of Manchester. His most recent television series ...

Our world is experiencing seismic change with the rise of power-mad leaders, spiralling conflicts and climate chaos. At such times, the big questions of life are brought into sharp relief. And so amid ...

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 ...

In 1786, Sir William Jones, a British philologist and judge, made the remarkable discovery that the ancient Indian language Sanskrit resembled Latin and Greek, “bearing to both of them a stronger ...

Season Three is now available on stream, exploring issues of fatherhood and choice, black feminism and raise politics, and asking listeners how the world got so wonderful (and what we are today.