The creation of global mushroom maps is unearthing new species and teaching us how they support Earth’s ecosystem ...

Godwin (4th Estate) by Joseph O’Neill. Joseph O’Neill remains best known for Netherland (2008). Hailed as a Great American ...

Hopeful Pessimism (Princeton University Press 2025) by Mara van der Lugt ...

Most scientific breakthroughs take years of research – but often, serendipity provides the final push, as these historic discoveries show .

This article is a preview from the Summer 2016 edition of New Humanist. You can find out more and subscribe here. The humanist approach to life is sometimes seen as a very recent thing – the product ...

The great Buddha statue in Nha Trang, Vietnam by Petr Ruzicka On paper, Buddhism looks pretty good. It has a philosophical subtlety married to a stated devotion to tolerance that makes it stand out ...

As big questions go, you can’t get much bigger than “What is the meaning of life?” It is a question that is often modified slightly, becoming “Does life have a purpose?” One can quibble over the ...

Can the Integrated Education Act help to break the segregation of Catholic and Protestant education in Northern Ireland?

But Trump likes people who like him, and these people liked him. By the fall of 2015, White-Cain was arranging meetings between the would-be president and charismatic religious leaders. These were ...

Historian Jonathan Israel's magisterial three-volume history of the 'Radical Enlightenment' is the intellectual version of a JCB, ripping up the terrain around him. Kenan Malik follows him down the ...

This article is a preview from the Autumn 2017 edition of New Humanist. From Bacteria to Bach and Back by Daniel Dennett (Allen Lane) Meticulously scientific and scientist-friendly, Daniel Dennett is ...

Religious officials have accompanied British soldiers into war for centuries, offering moral and spiritual support to humans in the most inhumane situations. But it was only at the end of last year ...