The Autumn 2025 issue of New Humanist is on sale now! This issue is all about how the battle over space – playing out unseen ...

They fuck you up, your mum and dad / They may not mean to, but they do / They fill you with the faults they had / And add ...

Mycorrhizal fungi growing with a plant root. Credit: Dr Yoshihiro Kobae As Giuliana Furci picks her way through the dense, dripping greenery of Chile’s Patagonian forest, her keen eyes are seeking out ...

Greg Graffin, evolutionary biologist and lead singer of pioneering US band Bad Religion, talks music and rebellion ...

Hopeful Pessimism (Princeton University Press 2025) by Mara van der Lugt Greta Thunberg famously told an audience at Davos, “I don’t want your hope.” What made more sense, she suggested, was for ...

Photo credit: Bruno Litaldi via Unsplash The Landscapes of Science and Religion: What Are We Disagreeing About? (Oxford University Press) by Nick Spencer and Hannah Waite This is an intelligent, ...

Almost 40 years ago, I was looking into the ordinary phenomenon of worry. Midway through the materialist decade of the 80s, this was an unusual research subject. But worry, I reasoned, was the ...