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    15 Nov 2018

    The winter 2018 New Humanist is out today. Our cover theme is ORIGINS OF OUR SPECIES. Read more and subscribe for just £27 a year.

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    Subscribe to New Humanist today and get four beautiful quarterly journals delivered to your door. It's just £27 for the year

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    "Understanding the Sun is more than a mere academic activity. Our very survival may depend on predicting the 'space weather' created by the nearest star."

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    Hammer, sickle, crucifix? Mike Makin-Waite on the complicated relationship between communism and religion

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    Our journalism is 100% independent - but we can't do it without your support. Subscribe, join the Rationalist Association, donate:

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  6. 21 hours ago

    The best way to see in January is definitely curled up and catching up on our top 10 long reads of 2018.

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    "Is there a self, and if there is a self, what constitutes it? There is huge overlap between brain research, psychology and philosophy."

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    "Populism has always rejected expertise, and the reliance on experts presents a problem for democratic theory."

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    20th-century communists couldn’t decide if they wanted to befriend the religious or blow up their churches.

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  11. Jan 3

    "It may sound paradoxical, but to take back control over our future we need to step beyond the nation state."

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    "Attitudes to sex work can be characterised by prurience, with confused cultural attitudes to sex or to women transmitted to debates around prostitution."

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    Increasingly, scholars are accepting "that Plato, like many of his contemporaries, was not the fully secular thinker many like to pretend he is."

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    We're run by a 133 year-old charity dedicated to free thought. Subscribe, join the Rationalist Association, donate:

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  15. Jan 3

    Hammer, sickle, crucifix? Mike Makin-Waite on the complicated relationship between communism and religion

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  16. Jan 3

    Self-organised and volunteer-run, mountain rescue teams show what we can achieve when we work together, writes

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  17. Jan 3

    "Refugees remind everyone that it is sheer good fortune that gives us homes and rights, and that it is possible to suddenly find yourself existing nowhere, having no citizenship, being completely rightless."

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  18. Jan 2

    Bruno Latour once sparked fury by questioning the way scientific facts are produced. Now he worries we've gone too far. asks: have postmodernist thinkers deconstructed truth?

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  19. Jan 2

    In attempting to dismantle human rights laws allegedly imposed by Brussels, we may find we need them more than ever.

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  20. Jan 2

    From the science of ancient DNA to the reality of climate change: our top 10 long reads of 2018

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  21. Jan 2

    Increasingly, scholars are accepting "that Plato, like many of his contemporaries, was not the fully secular thinker many like to pretend he is."

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