As conflict wracks the globe, two exhibitions - "The Family of Man" and "Children's Games" - offer a powerful vision of our ...

In his new book, Jonathan Sumption explores the different components – legal, institutional and cultural – that allow ...

Our world is experiencing seismic change with the rise of power-mad leaders, spiralling conflicts and climate chaos. At such times, the big questions of life are brought into sharp relief. And so amid ...

Cecilia Payne realised that the Sun and stars are primarily hydrogen and helium - only for a man to take credit for the discovery Cecilia Payne, Harvard's first female professor, at the College ...

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 ...

Labour’s feud over child benefits points to a deeper question: how to balance strategy with doing the right thing Labour has tied itself in knots over the two-child benefit cap. Credit: Alamy ...

A tribute to the late Caspar Melville – writer, musicologist, and former editor of New Humanist. Now that I am in my late eighties, I have sadly become used to losing good friends of a similar age.

My country, the United States, is quite religious, making it an outlier within the developed world. Generally, in nations where wealth and prosperity increase, piety decreases, but we Americans ...

Not long ago, religion seemed to be in terminal decline. But, as Paul Seabright points out in his impressive new book, it is now going from strength to strength. Local cults or “ethno-religions” may ...

Adults play on water slide set up in Bristol, May 2014. Credit: Alamy It’s late summer and the afternoon sun is beating off Shoreditch’s sheer glass facades and gum-littered pavements. My colleagues ...