The story covers one day in the life of 29-year-old Hedda Tesman (née Gabler), a famously untameable beauty who has recently ...

From the rise of AI to attacks on universities, are we all getting dumber? Or is society transforming and discovering new ...

Trump’s decision to slash the federal science budget is hitting hard in the US. There are worries that the cuts to LIGO – the ...

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

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 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 ...

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 ...

Buddhism is often seen as the acceptable face of religion, lacking a celestial dictator and full of Eastern wisdom. But Dale DeBakcsy, who worked for nine years in a Buddhist school, says it's time to ...

A crucifix hangs on the wall of a Catholic school in Warwickshire in the UK (Alamy Stock Photo) To anyone trying to navigate it for the first time, England’s education system can seem like an old ship ...

This article is a preview from the Spring 2015 edition of New Humanist. You can find out more and subscribe here. Azar Nafisi is an academic and writer, who left her native Iran for the US in 1997.

Time’s Monster: History, Conscience and Britain’s Empire (Allen Lane) by Priya Satia Priya Satia begins Time’s Monster with a statement: historians, she says, are above all storytellers. At first ...