Intellectuals and the Crisis of Politics in the Interwar Period and Beyond (Oxford University Press) by Balázs Trencsényi ...

The term is usually used to describe the geographical area from the eastern Mediterranean to Iran, including Syria, Jordan, ...

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 ...

One of the first events of the 21st century will be the next Census. There has been a Census of the United Kingdom every ten years since 1801 (except for… ...

The Life You Want (Hamish Hamilton) by Adam Phillips Imagine you are at the airport, picking out a new book for the trip, and ...

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 ...

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When Britain’s phone hacking scandal broke in 2011, Rupert Murdoch – the CEO of News International – gave the defence that he knew nothing about the criminal activities in his media empire. This ...

On paper, Buddhism looks pretty good. It has a philosophical subtlety married to a stated devotion to tolerance that makes it stand out amongst the world religions as uniquely not awful. Even ...

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 ...

Tourette syndrome hit the headlines this year following the success of I Swear, a film following the life story of activist John Davidson. The film picked up two trophies at the Baftas in February, ...

The world wide web is the most prolific incubator of conspiracy theories in human history. For the last few decades, it’s enabled users to spread their wildest, most inflammatory ideas across the ...