But while it can bind us together, gossip can just as easily divide us. And for my daughter’s generation, the stakes are even ...

In an era defined by “fake news”, public trust in institutions is increasingly under threat, along with our ability to discern fact from fiction. In the UK, 94 per cent of people say they have ...

Through this framework, he shows how humanism today can offer something of the ceremony and symbolic depth of traditional ...

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 ...

This article is a preview from the Summer 2015 edition of New Humanist. You can find out more and subscribe here. Religious disbelief is viewed with alarm in most Arab countries. Two government ...

This article is a preview from the Winter 2017 edition of New Humanist. How many of us haven’t in some idle moment imagined what the world might be like if it had always been run by women? Not that ...

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 ...

Buddhism is often seen as the acceptable face of religion, lacking a celestial dictator and full of Eastern wisdom. But Dale DeBakcsy, who worked for nine years in a Buddhist school, says it's time to ...

This article is a preview from the Autumn 2016 edition of New Humanist. You can find out more and subscribe here. Less than 24 hours after committing the worst mass shooting in US history, Omar Mateen ...

Who is America's leading secularist? Thats right, there isn't one. And if someone effective doesn't start speaking up for the seperation of church and state soon, it could be lost for good, argues ...

This article is a preview from the Spring 2015 edition of New Humanist. You can find out more and subscribe here. Azar Nafisi is an academic and writer, who left her native Iran for the US in 1997.