Country music has long shed its Bible-bashing image. Today, bluegrass is helping to heal America’s deep divides ...

How should we represent humankind to aliens? With Pioneer 10 and 11, Nasa fell short. Next time, we must do better ...

Two memoirs, from Basra and Ukraine, chronicle the lives of ordinary men pulled into war ...

Changing My Mind (Notting Hill Editions) by Julian Barnes ...

The oft-repeated observation that the Labour Party owes “more to Methodism than Marxism” annoys Neil Kinnock, who served as ...

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 Spring 2015 edition of New Humanist. You can find out more and subscribe here. I’d arranged to meet the sorceress at 4pm, but I was running late. Hurrying past ...

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 ...

This article is a preview from the Spring 2016 edition of New Humanist. You can find out more and subscribe here. After 80 years the Loch Ness monster lingers on, mostly as a gift to cartoonists and ...

In rallying in opposition to marriage reform, religious campaigners claim that their arguments are grounded in reason and common sense. But take a closer look and you'll spot the homophobia, says ...