In early 2025, well before the release of the new “report”, Vice President JD Vance made the agenda transparent. He attacked ...

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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 ...

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 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 ...

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 ...

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Dickens's short story electrified Victorian Britain. But it was a secularist tale, and its subversive qualities have been forgotten. 'Marley's Ghost. Ebenezer Scrooge visited by a ghost.' (Flickr / ...