The term is usually used to describe the geographical area from the eastern Mediterranean to Iran, including Syria, Jordan, ...

What we’ve seen over the last 10 or 15 years, but which has really taken hold in the last couple of years, is a trend where ...

For many generations in societies shaped by Christianity, monogamy has been the almost undisputed champion of relationship norms. In Britain and the US, it has been held up as the dominant – really ...

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 ...

Adults play on water slide set up in Bristol, May 2014. Credit: Alamy It’s late summer and the afternoon sun is beating off Shoreditch’s sheer glass facades and gum-littered pavements. My colleagues ...

On paper, Buddhism looks pretty good. It has a philosophical subtlety married to a stated devotion to tolerance that makes it stand out amongst the world religions as uniquely not awful. Even ...

This article is a preview from the Winter 2017 edition of New Humanist. How many of us haven’t in some idle moment imagined what the world might be like if it had always been run by women? Not that ...

Michaela Community School prides itself on its approach to discipline. At this free school in Wembley, north-west London, children walk the corridors in silence and retrieve books from their bags ...

God: An Anatomy (Pan Macmillan) by Francesca Stavrakopoulou. We don’t know his real name. In early inscriptions it appears as Yhw, Yhwh, or simply Yh; but we don’t know how it was spoken. He has come ...

“Winter’s Gibbet” in Northumberland marks the site of a murder and execution in the late 18th century. Credit: Alamy On 9 February last year, the then-deputy chair of the Conservative Party, Lee ...

Educating in Faith: A History of the English Catholic Public School (Sacristy Press) by Mark Cleary My Jesuit public school, which was called Beaumont, liked to tell impressionable parents that it was ...

This article is a preview from the Winter 2017 edition of New Humanist. Death is a fundamental feature of our lives. Fear of death has been present in most cultures for a very long time. It is a basic ...