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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 ...

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 ...

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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 ...

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 ...

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.

“Truth’s a menace, science is a public danger,” says Mustapha Mond, the “Controller” in Aldous Huxley’s iconic dystopian novel Brave New World. “That’s why we so carefully limit the scope of its ...

This article is a preview from the Summer 2017 edition of New Humanist. You can find out more and subscribe here. Maryam Mirzakhani did not enjoy mathematics to begin with. She dreamed of being an ...