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 .

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

If the Lord moves in mysterious ways, then his son moves in downright weird ones. Jesus Christ’s inexplicable predilection for appearing in the snack foods of small-town America has become even more ...

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

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 great Buddha statue in Nha Trang, Vietnam by Petr Ruzicka On paper, Buddhism looks pretty good. It has a philosophical subtlety married to a stated devotion to tolerance that makes it stand out ...

The popular association of atheism with immorality is a particular deterrent for women who have religious doubts, since in Arab society they are expected to be “virtuous” in order to marry. “It is ...

The 'Super-K' detector is built 3,000 feet down in a mine beneath Hida in Japan. This is one of its most famous images. Marcus Chown explains This picture of the Sun is hardly high-definition. But, in ...

For many generations in societies shaped by Christianity, monogamy has been the almost undisputed champion of relationship norms. In Britain and the US, it has been held up as the dominant – really ...