New Humanist Spring 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! 

Spring 2025

Trump's second coming

To many evangelicals, the new US leader is not just a president but a messiah. How did he gain such mythic power, and where will it lead? Matthew D. Taylor, an expert in Christian nationalism, introduces us to the wild characters behind Trump's return who now have a hotline to the presidency.

What's the point of politics?

Some of the questions about the future of democracy point to the fundamentals: What do we even want from our politicians? James Ball explores an age-old debate between idealism and pragmatism and how it's showing up in British politics today.

The age of the narcissist

Narcissists seem to be all around us, but is this psychological disorder really on the rise – and are our politicians particularly prone? Journalist Bethany Elliott untangles the science from the pop psychology.

Also in the Spring 2025 issue of New Humanist:

• Keith Kahn-Harris on how to keep the anti-racist movement united
• Danny Sriskandarajah on what citizens' assemblies can do for democracy
• Sam Meadows on Javier Milei's gamble with the lives of Argentinians
• Michael Rosen on the history and meaning of the word "coup"
• Andrew Mueller on how to topple tyrants
• Nicola Cutcher speaks to Syrian human rights defender Mansour Omari about the search for justice after Assad
• Zoe Holman on the death of a Palestinian poet
• Stephen Fry on doubt, masculinity and why it's hard to be a woolly liberal
• Alex Niven on the dead malls of the north
• Durdana Bhat and Kamran Yousuf meet India's revolutionary gender fluid dance troupe
• David McAllister on digital art through the ages
• Martin Cohen on the growing evidence that animals enjoy a good laugh, and what we can learn from it
• Why Shaparak Khorsandi is proud to be friends with her ex-husband's new wife
• Marcus Chown on the greatest astronomy PhD ever written