Inside Kenan Malik on rational compassion • The beauty of maths • Daniel Dennett interviewed

New Humanist A quarterly journal of ideas, science and culture from the Rationalist Association

Summer 2017 Published since 1885

How a history of conquest shapes the present

Gurminder K Bhambra and Charlotte L Riley Britain’s place in the world

Owen Hatherley nostalgia on screen • Alev Scott at Europe’s borders

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Vol 132 No 2 £4.95 €6 US$7

ISSN 0306-512X newhumanist.org.uk