When Hungary’s Prime Minister Viktor Orbán strode up to the podium in April to give his victory speech, a look of glee was spread across his face. He had just beaten a six-party united opposition to ...

Saraswati (Serpent’s Tail) by Gurnaik Johal. Hindutva, or Hindu nationalism, is often criticised for using religious identity ...

Historian Callum G. Brown has spent his career charting secularisation and social change. In Ninety Humanists and the Ethical ...

Barnes deals with a variety of mind changes – in literary tastes, music and politics – but what most intrigued me was his ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

This article is a preview from the Autumn 2016 edition of New Humanist. You can find out more and subscribe here. In a 2008 article in Wired magazine entitled “The End of Theory”, Chris Anderson ...

This article is a preview from the Autumn 2015 edition of New Humanist. You can find out more and subscribe here. Watch one of the BBC’s political programmes – such as the Daily Politics and This Week ...

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 ...