Even in prison, Belarusian dissident women haven’t given up. The future of the country may still be in their hands ...

It was a similar story with plant life: crops selected for greater production (wheat and barley were two of the first) were often in proximity to their wild relatives and exchanged genes. This entry ...

Even in prison, Belarusian dissident women haven’t given up. The future of the country may still be in their hands ...

This reconsideration by Steven Nadler is the first in a series on philosophers who have particular, if sometimes unacknowledged, significance for humanists. Few philosophers have been so mythologised ...

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 ...

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After 19 years as a self-proclaimed "extremist", Dan Barker renounced his faith – and he wants everyone to know about it. This article is a preview from the Summer 2016 edition of New Humanist. You ...

Richard Rowson is a Research Fellow at Kingston University, Visiting Fellow at Glamorgan, and a member of ethics committes at Glamorgan, Kings College London and Lincoln University. He is the author ...

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 ...

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 ...

Today, the power of faith – or what George Bush calls his gut – is a force in the world. Many rationalists have tried to confront this situation, and have mainly pursued two different strategies. Some ...

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 ...