Jeffrey Epstein attempted to gather the best minds of science around him. His interests were rooted in a perverse, eugenic ...

But along with entrenching the clergy in Iran’s government, the Islamic Republic also built an all-encompassing security ...

That’s the part people rarely talk about when they frame the Enhanced Games as positive or ground-breaking. Athletes are ...

Social media bans for young people are gaining traction around the world. Australia became the first country to implement one ...

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 ...

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 ...

For many generations in societies shaped by Christianity, monogamy has been the almost undisputed champion of relationship norms. In Britain and the US, it has been held up as the dominant – really ...

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 ...

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 Winter 2017 edition of New Humanist. How many of us haven’t in some idle moment imagined what the world might be like if it had always been run by women? Not that ...

The recent release of the 2021 England and Wales census figures for religion and ethnicity led to the usual debates about who “we” are now. While particular findings attracted attention – most notably ...

My country, the United States, is quite religious, making it an outlier within the developed world. Generally, in nations where wealth and prosperity increase, piety decreases, but we Americans ...