A quarterly magazine of culture and science, published since 1885. New Humanist is for anyone who wants to understand the ideas, conflicts and systems shaping our world - climate, capitalism, technology, fundamentalism, struggles for equality and more. We produce a beautiful magazine once every three months full of serious, intelligent essays and reportage.

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Latest issue

ORIGINS OF OUR SPECIES

David Graeber and David Wengrow: are we city-dwellers or hunter-gatherers?
Angela Saini: are our successes and failures really determined by our genes?
Adam Rutherford: how we differ from animals
Julian Baggini: why philosophy developed in three places at once
Charlotte L. Riley: is history the search for one story, or many?

Also in this issue:
Marcus Chown's "Cosmos" column
Samira Ahmed on a flourishing of the arts in turbulent times
How communists dealt with religion
The global fight for pain relief
Mountain rescue and mutual aid
Ethics and the afterlife in The Good Place
Why mathematics has a gender problem
What we can learn from colobus monkeys
Book reviews, cryptic crossword and more...