In the Autumn 2026 issue of New Humanist we ask comic Stewart Lee, Green politician Caroline Lucas, former Archbishop of ...

The former Archbishop of Canterbury and the head of Humanists UK discuss the growing influence of religious nationalism ...

The Odyssey is a Christopher Nolan movie. Like Dunkirk, it shows exhausted soldiers on a beach, desperate to get home. Like ...

Stewart Lee is an award-winning comedian, writer, director and filmmaker. His new stand-up show, “Stewart Lee vs The Man-Wulf ...

Beyond Belief: How Evidence Shows What Really Works (Princeton) by Helen Pearson Helen Pearson’s Beyond Belief: How Evidence Shows What Really Works tells a story that is at once reassuring and ...

Female longing is having a cultural moment and midlife women are taking the limelight. Confounding societal expectations that older women should fade into sexual invisibility or conform to a selfless ...

Book review: Intellectuals and the Crisis of Politics in the Interwar Period and Beyond (Oxford University Press) by Balázs Trencsényi Ever the lover of fantasy, the English author and thinker H. G.

Middle East, 1876: An extensive area of south-west Asia and northern Africa No matter how absurd it is to talk of a place called the “Middle East”, we persist in doing so. Given that the world is a ...

Nick Lowles is the founder and chief executive of anti-racism group Hope Not Hate. What do you make of the rise of the Christian right in Britain? What we’ve seen over the last 10 or 15 years, but ...

Sci-fi writer Isaac Asimov’s prescient genius produced a series of classic stories, collected together as I, Robot, in which intelligent machines are confronted with existential issues. However, even ...

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 ...

When Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini ended his exile and flew to Iran in 1979, covering women with headscarves and pushing minorities to the margins, I doubt he imagined that after 47 years his Islamic ...