Robert Prevost's election as Pope brought hope to reformers. But will he push for peace and resist ultra-conservative ...

The Autumn 2025 issue of New Humanist is on sale now! This issue is all about how the battle over space – playing out unseen ...

They fuck you up, your mum and dad / They may not mean to, but they do / They fill you with the faults they had / And add ...

Mycorrhizal fungi growing with a plant root. Credit: Dr Yoshihiro Kobae As Giuliana Furci picks her way through the dense, dripping greenery of Chile’s Patagonian forest, her keen eyes are seeking out ...

Hopeful Pessimism (Princeton University Press 2025) by Mara van der Lugt Greta Thunberg famously told an audience at Davos, “I don’t want your hope.” What made more sense, she suggested, was for ...

Our world is experiencing seismic change with the rise of power-mad leaders, spiralling conflicts and climate chaos. At such times, the big questions of life are brought into sharp relief. And so amid ...

“Truth’s a menace, science is a public danger,” says Mustapha Mond, the “Controller” in Aldous Huxley’s iconic dystopian novel Brave New World. “That’s why we so carefully limit the scope of its ...

A tribute to the late Caspar Melville – writer, musicologist, and former editor of New Humanist. Now that I am in my late eighties, I have sadly become used to losing good friends of a similar age.

But Trump likes people who like him, and these people liked him. By the fall of 2015, White-Cain was arranging meetings between the would-be president and charismatic religious leaders. These were ...

“Christmas isn’t as exciting anymore… because I don’t believe in Santa,” my youngest daughter whispered to me recently. She was careful not to let her older sister, who still claims to believe in ...

Michaela Community School prides itself on its approach to discipline. At this free school in Wembley, north-west London, children walk the corridors in silence and retrieve books from their bags ...