Perhaps your brother has always felt in your shadow and is now expressing his need to go solo. Maybe you’ve always counted on ...

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 ...

Epstein hosted a dinner at Harvard in 2004, with attendees including evolutionary biologist Robert Trivers (centre right). Credit: Alamy Stock Photo It was not a huge surprise to find myself in the ...

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 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 ...

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 ...