We asked five experts for their thoughts on the future of human intelligence.

In early 2025, well before the release of the new “report”, Vice President JD Vance made the agenda transparent. He attacked ...

Without female doctors, women in Afghanistan are being denied medical care – as the recent earthquake made painfully clear ...

Most of those attending the unveiling were grey-haired now; many had come in velvet and glittery outfits. Two women in their ...

In an era defined by “fake news”, public trust in institutions is increasingly under threat, along with our ability to discern fact from fiction. In the UK, 94 per cent of people say they have ...

Twenty years ago, John P. A. Ioannidis published an essay with the eye-catching title “Why Most Published Research Findings Are False”. It has since been accessed millions of times and accumulated ...

An 1891 illustration of a scandal in France: a mayor and his mistress were accused of dumping a foetus at sea. Credit: Alamy Abortion: A History (Hurst Publishers) by Mary Fissell There is a common ...

The vast domain of space is easy to ignore. It’s up there, invisible, while our headlines focus on billionaire rocket launches. But every single one of us has a vested interest. We need to act to ...

The Autumn 2025 issue of New Humanist is on sale now! This issue is all about how the battle over space – playing out unseen above us – concerns us all. In the latest edition of our "Voices" section, ...

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 ...