“The most incomprehensible thing about the Universe”, said Einstein, “is that it is comprehensible.” Why, for instance, are the laws of physics not so complex that they are forever beyond the grasp of ...

Jason Burke's history of "the extremists who hijacked the 1970s" is a rollicking tale – but also a cautionary fable ...

Proto-Indo-European gave birth to a plethora of modern languages, but there remains a question mark over its origins ...

As fake news accelerates, we need to teach our children how to think critically. Finnish schools are leading the charge ...

Walls – physical, digital, bureaucratic – are going up all over the world, dividing citizen from citizen. The very notion of citizenship is being questioned and restricted. India is no exception but ...

This article appears in the Witness section of the autumn 2020 issue of the New Humanist. Subscribe today. The Sri Lankan authorities have refused to drop charges brought against award-winning writer ...

Historian Callum G. Brown has spent his career charting secularisation and social change. In Ninety Humanists and the Ethical ...

I’m standing in an elevator in Zakhaev International Airport, Moscow. As I brace myself for the opening of the doors, my comrade stoically utters, “Remember, no Russian.” What follows is brutal ...

What, you might wonder, is the connection between an episode of Dr Who and a hero of the Indian independence struggle, executed by the British in 1909? Leena Dhingra, the author of Exhumation, joins ...