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We are only just beginning to understand the enormous significance of the human virome. The latest and very best articles, news, blog posts and essays from New Humanist, promoting and debating science, reason, humanism and freethought since 1885. Featuring the finest writing and comment from the world's leading free thinking authors.
A century of British humanism | New Humanist
Oct 17, 2023 — The authors view the period of 1930-70 as the first “gilded age” of humanism. Books like The Humanist Outlook (1968), edited by the philosopher A. J. Ayer, helped to define humanism in terms of ethical issues, Karl Popper’s “open society” and an intellectual outlook based on the scientific method. The 1960s also saw the founding of a Humanist Parliamentary Group, leading to greater ...
About us - New Humanist
About New Humanist. We're a quarterly magazine of culture and science, published since 1885. New Humanist is for anyone who wants to understand the ideas, conflicts and systems shaping our world - climate, capitalism, technology, fundamentalism, struggles for equality and more. We publish a beautiful edition once every three months full of ...
Can we resist the populist right? | New Humanist
17 hours ago — According to an Economist analysis, Kamala Harris’s policies were pushed to the right, particularly on key populist issues like immigration and climate change, by her rivalry with Trump. The president-elect “has redefined both par ties’ agendas”, the magazine argued. Recently, Vicente Valentim, an Oxford University re searcher and ...
Beyond the two cultures - New Humanist
Mar 26, 2024 — Beyond the two cultures. Amid a polarised debate, science and art seem further apart than ever. It’s vital to keep talking and bridge the divide. "Humanism” in the modern sense was fleshed out as a worldview in the 20th century, although its roots go deeper. The idea originated in a desire to find a philosophical approach to life that would ...
Top 20 of 2020 - New Humanist
Dec 17, 2020 — An uplifting piece on the campaigners around the world successfully arguing that mountains, trees and rivers should have legal rights. 12. Leaving the Black Church: an interview with Audrey Simmons. A key member of the Association of Black Humanists discusses the unique challenges faced by black apostates and the need to ensure that humanism is welcoming to all.
Blog | New Humanist
Sep 10, 2024 — Rise of the fanatics: New Humanist's summer 2024 issue is out now. Our latest issue features Mary Jo McConahay on how the Catholic vote could swing the US election for Trump, Alona Ferber on how divisions between secular and religious Israelis threaten to break the Jewish state, and John Ralston Saul on how citizens can resist the authoritarian ...
For the love of reason - New Humanist
May 12, 2022 — For the love of reason. The head of Humanists UK talks to Steven Pinker about myth, reason, social change – and how to inspire a new generation of rationalists. Steven Pinker’s Rationality is a tour de force training manual on how to think. Lessons in logical deduction, in avoiding cognitive biases and probability blunders, and in how to ...
Top 20 of 2021 - New Humanist
Dec 27, 2021 — It's been a long year. At many points, it felt as if the doomed 2020 had stretched well into 2021. The media continued to bear bad news, and reflections on the experience of grief, isolation, polarisation and other features of our social landscape continued to …