Through this framework, he shows how humanism today can offer something of the ceremony and symbolic depth of traditional ...

But while it can bind us together, gossip can just as easily divide us. And for my daughter’s generation, the stakes are even ...

In 2025, we buckled up for a bumpy ride. With Donald Trump and his accompanying gang of Christian fanatics in power once again, and conflict raging on in Europe and the Middle East, it was time to ...

Malvolio stands before the countess Olivia, whom he believes to be in love with him, in this 19th century engraving of a scene from "Twelfth Night" by R. Staines. Credit: UTC Library Condemn, c. 1400: ...

Despite decades of research since the inception of the discipline known as artificial intelligence, it was November 2022 that marked the point at which people the world over began to pay attention.

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The vast domain of space is easy to ignore. It’s up there, invisible, while our headlines focus on billionaire rocket launches. But every single one of us has a vested interest. We need to act to ...

The Autumn 2025 issue of New Humanist is on sale now! This issue is all about how the battle over space – playing out unseen above us – concerns us all. In the latest edition of our "Voices" section, ...

Hopeful Pessimism (Princeton University Press 2025) by Mara van der Lugt Greta Thunberg famously told an audience at Davos, “I don’t want your hope.” What made more sense, she suggested, was for ...

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 ...

Educating in Faith: A History of the English Catholic Public School (Sacristy Press) by Mark Cleary My Jesuit public school, which was called Beaumont, liked to tell impressionable parents that it was ...

Michaela Community School prides itself on its approach to discipline. At this free school in Wembley, north-west London, children walk the corridors in silence and retrieve books from their bags ...