New Humanist Autumn 2025

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! 

In this issue:

• We speak to security expert Mark Hilborne about space warfare - and how it could be the deciding factor in the conflict between Russia and Ukraine.
• In the latest edition of our "Voices" section, we ask five experts - from scientists to philosophers - how to protect space for the benefit of all of humanity.
• Writer Jess Thompson discusses when Nasa prepared a message to aliens with the Pioneer probes in the 1970s, sexism skewed how they represented humankind. Within the next decade, we may have another chance to send a message deep into space - and this time, we must do better
• We examine the new Superman movie which offers the vision of a kinder, more tolerant United States - saved by an immigrant, in this case a literal alien. But should we really pin our hopes on a superhero?