The Palestine solidarity movement loses credibility when it fails to condemn Hamas’s crimes. If we support Palestinians, we ...

Greg Graffin, evolutionary biologist and lead singer of pioneering US band Bad Religion, talks music and rebellion ...

Historian Jonathan Israel's magisterial three-volume history of the 'Radical Enlightenment' is the intellectual version of a JCB, ripping up the terrain around him. Kenan Malik follows him down the ...

Most scientific breakthroughs take years of research – but often, serendipity provides the final push, as these historic discoveries show .

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Have you ever laid in bed at night wondering how you'd run the Catholic Church? Or do you have genuine ambitions of taking over in Vatican City? If so, you ought to try Which Pope Am I?, our all-new ...

Can the Integrated Education Act help to break the segregation of Catholic and Protestant education in Northern Ireland?

The view that more information produces better decisions is at odds with the world around us.

Some sophisticated arguments for God have been made in response to the New Atheists. Richard Norman puts the ‘New Believers’ to the test. Illustrations by Irene Fuga ...

Those looking for evidence to back Peter Berger’s conclusion can do no better than take a closer look at the religious landscape of India, the “crouching tiger” of 21st-century global capitalism.

This article is a preview from the Autumn 2017 edition of New Humanist. From Bacteria to Bach and Back by Daniel Dennett (Allen Lane) Meticulously scientific and scientist-friendly, Daniel Dennett is ...

The bulk of Nihil Unbound is composed of a series of readings of weighty philosophical texts. The principal players here are the American brain scientist Paul Churchland and the French triad of ...