Perhaps your brother has always felt in your shadow and is now expressing his need to go solo. Maybe you’ve always counted on ...

To be able to keep on educating, while encouraging compassion and celebrating each other, teachers need to be taken seriously ...

Can an artist’s work be separated from their mental health? If not, can mental illness aid creativity? Or is it creativity ...

The border war between Pakistan and Afghanistan is supposedly about terrorism, but it’s civilians like me who are suffering ...

The Big Apple has long been a gateway to the nation. Ellis Island, once an immigration station, is visible from the waterfront and looms large in the city’s mythology. A huge factor in Mamdani’s ...

This article by Daniel Trilling, author of If We Tolerate This: How the British Establishment Made the Far Right Respectable, ...

Rowan Williams (left) is a Welsh Anglican bishop, theologian and poet who was Archbishop of Canterbury from 2002–2012. Andrew Copson (right) is a humanist leader and author. He is chief executive of ...

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 ...

This article is a preview from the Summer 2014 edition of New Humanist. You can find out more and subscribe here. Bertrand Russell must be one of the most celebrated public intellectuals of all time.

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 ...

In the early 1970s, I was a pupil at a Protestant primary school in working-class west Belfast. Considering the mayhem that was raging nearby – the rioting, bombings and shootings – the teachers did a ...