The border war between Pakistan and Afghanistan is supposedly about terrorism, but it’s civilians like me who are suffering ...

Can an artist’s work be separated from their mental health? If not, can mental illness aid creativity? Or is it creativity ...

The vice president displays neither self-awareness nor an understanding of irony in this strange book ...

The Big Apple has long been a gateway to the nation. Ellis Island, once an immigration station, is visible from the waterfront and looms large in the city’s mythology. A huge factor in Mamdani’s ...

This article by Daniel Trilling, author of If We Tolerate This: How the British Establishment Made the Far Right Respectable, ...

Rowan Williams (left) is a Welsh Anglican bishop, theologian and poet who was Archbishop of Canterbury from 2002–2012. Andrew Copson (right) is a humanist leader and author. He is chief executive of ...

This article is a sneak peek from New Humanist‘s Autumn 2026 issue on how to fight hate, out on 20th August. Sign up to our free newsletter to hear when it lands. The Odyssey is a Christopher Nolan ...

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 ...

“Refugee” overlaps with the French words “refuge” and “refugier”, but the route into English starts out with some Latin forms of the word, like “refugium”, a place of shelter. Both in Latin and French ...

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 ...

God: An Anatomy (Pan Macmillan) by Francesca Stavrakopoulou. We don’t know his real name. In early inscriptions it appears as Yhw, Yhwh, or simply Yh; but we don’t know how it was spoken. He has come ...