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"In the online intellectual space, let’s say, it’s becoming cool to be Christian." Read our interview with Alex O'Connor on his journey from atheist YouTube star to "painful agnostic": newhumanist.org.uk/articles/6436

In "Speculative Whiteness", Jordan S. Carroll unpicks the relationship between science fiction and the alt-right (U of MN Press) newhumanist.org.uk/articles/6438

🎂 New Humanist is 140 years old this year! Our £10 digital subscription includes access to the full archive, with exclusive contributions from Iris Murdoch, Bertrand Russell, Amartya Sen and more. Sign up now and start exploring: newhumanist.org.uk/subscribe

Is the Universe infinite? Or is it shaped like a doughnut? newhumanist.org.uk/articles/6437

Long live our flawed queen, Lady Gaga! newhumanist.org.uk/articles/6424

Always plugged in? Here's why our brains need silence sometimes newhumanist.org.uk/articles/6430

From atheist YouTuber to praying for divine revelation, what has happened to Alex O’Connor? newhumanist.org.uk/articles/6436

"Meaning is not something given from above, but something made, something emergent in our interactions with the world and each other" newhumanist.org.uk/articles/6431

How a Bristol housing estate is bringing in £100,000 a year for the community after building their own wind turbine newhumanist.org.uk/articles/6434

🎂This year marks New Humanist's 140th anniversary - and to celebrate, we're highlighting iconic pieces from our archive. Today: Vera Brittain's 1935 "Toast to the RPA", where she talks women and warfare. "Superstition and tradition are again responsible for the readiness with

"At a time when culture war battles are raging, the lesson being forgotten about the 80s, at least in Britain, is the strange symbiosis of a government deemed hostile to young and gay people with some of those very same creative young citizens" newhumanist.org.uk/articles/6432

A new book tackles an old debate - the battle between scientific and religious beliefs newhumanist.org.uk/articles/6439

"Some of the games in the 'Children's Games' series are familiar – skipping, kite-flying, rock-paper-scissors – but others have emerged during war, civil disruption and in conditions of bitter poverty" newhumanist.org.uk/articles/6428

Why the alt-right was obsessed with science fiction newhumanist.org.uk/articles/6438

New Humanist: Join the community of freethinkers today newhumanist.org.uk/subscribe

Our phones provide us with constant entertainment. What do we lose when we never sit alone with our thoughts? newhumanist.org.uk/articles/6430

Green power to the people! newhumanist.org.uk/articles/6434

What happens to your brain when it's flooded with endless content and information newhumanist.org.uk/articles/6430

Let's resist the temptation to transfigure parenthood into a quasi-religious experience, write Rachel Wiseman and Anastasia Berg in our special section on the search for meaning in the modern world newhumanist.org.uk/articles/6431

What shape is the Universe? Does it even make sense to ask? newhumanist.org.uk/articles/6437