A Pakistani man who received death threats from his Islamic family for becoming a humanist has been granted asylum in the UK after the Government overturned its controversial dismissal of his case.

Religion has framed and shaped much of human culture. The belief that there are supernatural forces or powerful deities pervading nature, or the proposition that a supreme Creator God rules the ...

A NATIONALITY is — well, what ? No one really knows. The scholars, of course, dispute ABOUT it endlessly. What makes a nation? How can you identify it? What factors comprise it? My own guess, ...

One of the quirks of book publishing is that a finished manuscript can sit around for nearly a year before it finally appears in hardcover. For most authors, this long liminal existence is a source of ...

Near the start of her account of humanism, Sarah Bakewell draws an important distinction. Anti-humanists, she writes, despise the material world and seek either to escape it using religion or remake ...

Peru is on the verge of the 2026 General Elections, to be held on April 12, and, as in different parts of the world, presents ...