New Humanist

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New Humanist
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Editor Daniel Trilling
Assistant Editor Samira Shackle
Categories Politics, rationalism
Frequency Quarterly
Publisher Rationalist Association
Year founded 1885 (under the name Watts's Literary Guide)
Country United Kingdom
Based in London
Language English
Website Official site
ISSN 0306-512X

New Humanist is a quarterly[1] magazine, published by the Rationalist Association in the UK,[2] that focuses on culture, news, philosophy, and science from a sceptical perspective.[3] It has been in print for 125 years; starting out life as Watts's Literary Guide, founded by C. A. Watts in November 1885.[4]

History

Notable columnists have included Laurie Taylor,[5] Simon Hoggart[6] and Sally Feldman.[7]

In 2003 Hazhir Teimourian, a reviewer for the magazine, quit over a controversial cartoon depicting Christ slumped in the arms of the Virgin Mary.[8]

In 2005 Caspar Melville took over as managing editor of the magazine and CEO of the Rationalist Association.[9] Daniel Trilling assumed the position of Editor in 2013.[10]

Prior to 1941, a different magazine with the same name was the first periodical of the modern religious humanism movement in the United States of America and was in continuous publication from 1928 through to 1936. In 1933 it published the first Humanist Manifesto. After a hiatus of four years it was succeeded by The Humanist in 1941. Edwin H. Wilson, a Unitarian minister, was the editor of both.[11]

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