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New Humanist is a quarterly magazine of ideas, science and culture. Published since 1885, this beautiful full colour quarterly is filled with intelligent and thought-provoking features, reportage and comment on everything from climate and technology to faith, ideology and the struggle for equal rights. Plus poetry, cartoons and a crossword to boot!
Summer 2025
As Trump and his army of Christian nationalists trample on rights and freedoms in the US, we speak to Nick Fish, head of American Atheists, about the masses of people volunteering for the fight back.
"We are tracking almost 700 bills right now that impact church-state separation, and many of them are attacks on public education, trans people and abortion."
At times of instability, the big questions of life are brought into sharp relief. But in an increasingly secular world, some claim we've lost our sense of meaning and purpose.
Is 2025 a year of existential crisis, or is this idea being overblown by the prophets and pundits who benefit?
In our new "Voices" section, we bring together five diverse perspectives on the search for meaning in the modern world.
"The loudest voices warning of our existential vacuum are those who have something to sell – literally or metaphorically."
Can art remind us of what we have in common? Ken Worpole explores two exhibitions that give us a glimpse of daily life around the world – and highlight how children build community through play, even as their right to do so is threatened.
"Throughout history, and in all cultures, children have gathered together, agreed rules, played and dispersed, leaving little evidence behind ... Yet while they last, games are a form of bewitchment, a way of temporarily forgetting the difficulties of life and escaping into another world."
We speak to writer Selma Dabbagh about how Palestine's literary scene is thriving, despite – or because of – the horrors of war.
"Palestinian literature is going through a very exciting juncture. There are so many new voices coming out. It’s like a dam is breaking in terms of the urgency of the voices, the variety of them, the experimentality of it."
Also in the Spring 2025 issue of New Humanist: