How to Disagree Without Dehumanising | Sharon Booth, Solutions Not Sides
"Education shouldn't be about telling young people what to think. It should be telling them how they can think." — Sharon Booth How do you hold an honest conversation about one of the world's most di...
12 Aug 42min
84. The Mattering Instinct with Rebecca Goldstein
Support Humanism Now and Join Our Community! — https://ko-fi.com/humanismnowpod "We are creatures of matter who long to matter — and one of the strongest manifestations of this is people who deny that...
26 Jul 45min
83. Seth Andrews, Host of 'The Thinking Atheist', on Leaving Faith, Finding Values, and Fighting Tribalism
Support Humanism Now & Join Our Community! | https://ko-fi.com/humanismnowpod "I found atheism is not an inoculation against irrationality or awfulness." — Seth AndrewsSeth Andrews spent 14 years as a...
19 Jul 48min
82. The Quiet Revival That Wasn't: David Voas on Faked Data and the Truth About Religion in Britain
Support Humanism Now & Join Our Community! "I don't think that we have any solid evidence of a religious revival underway in England, or for that matter, anywhere else." — David Voas In April 2025, t...
12 Jul 38min
81. The Re-emergence of Eugenics and How to Fight Back with Science, with Rebecca Sear
"I used to think eugenics had died out after the Second World War. I no longer believe that, unfortunately." — Rebecca SearMost of us think of eugenics as a horror confined to the past. It isn't. This...
5 Jul 35min
80. Inside the Ex-Muslim Movement - Muhammad Syed on why leaving Islam Can Be Liberating, and Dangerous
"One of the things I heard again and again was: I thought I was the only one." — Muhammad Syed Leaving religion can be one of the most liberating decisions of a person's life. For those leaving Islam,...
29 Jun 42min
79. Meet strangeness with kindness - Kestral Gaian on the role of representation, community and politics in fiction
"It's really about what happens when kindness is the first response to strangeness." — Kestral Gaian What does it take to stay human in a world that often forgets what that means? This episode explore...
21 Jun 33min
78. "No Hope But Peace and Justice" - An Israeli and a Palestinian in Dialogue
"Many in society saw the news and understood there's no hope for peace. But I understood there's no hope but peace." — Yaniv AkninWhat does humanism actually ask of us when we confront the Israel-Pale...
5 Jun 43min
