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Contents Autumn 2022 REGULARS p. 3 Editor’s Note p. 6 The Q&A Francis Fukuyama p. 10 Witness Compiled by our team p. 71 Crossword Set by Chaliapin p. 73 Quiz Set by Chris Maslanka COLUMNS p. 8 Soapbox Back to the Bronze Age By Samira Ahmed p. 16 Rights The "crime" of abortion By Soraya Chemaly p. 70 In a word "Scandal" By Michael Rosen p. 74 Endgame My final resting place By Laurie Taylor FEATURES p. 18 Cover story Propaganda is key in 4 Caroline Crampton on television after #MeToo on page 48 “Kurt Vonnegut has been called a Christ-loving atheist” Jonathan Shipley, page 56 conflict, but can we ever tell the truth about war? By Peter Salmon p. 22 Technology How quantum computers could give us superhuman intelligence By Marcus Chown p. 26 Ideas Can spies get better at predicting the future? By Amy Zegart p. 30 Religion The serious side of the Flying Spaghetti Monster By Emma Park p. 34 Ethics When is scientific research beyond the pale? By Kit Chapman p. 38 Psychology Every era has its myths and rituals – ours come from psychology By Rami Gabriel p. 43 Reportage Viktor Orbán's dangerous model of Christan Democracy By Amanda Coakley CULTURE p. 48 Television What does TV look like in the post-#MeToo era? By Caroline Crampton New Humanist | Autumn 2022
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Contributors p. 52 Photography Taking on Jewish visual stereotypes, one image at a time By Keith Kahn-Harris p. 56 Film A new documentary on Kurt Vonnegut has kindness at its heart By Jonathan Shipley p. 60 Literature On Elif Batuman's radical art of self-portraiture By Kaya Genç BOOKS I N RYA N I L LU ST R AT IO N B Y E O C OV E R p. 64 Reviews Mathew Lyons on exile and migration; Alice Bloch on Silicon Valley's dubious spirituality; Charlie Lynch on queer history and Section 28; James Robins on the loved and loathed revolutionary Robespierre; Lucy Popescu on a novel of trauma and regret; Andrew Mueller on the allure of British nostalgia POETRY p. 51 Tomaž Šalamun p. 55 Sean O'Brien p. 59 Maitreyabandhu p. 63 Corrado Govoni Samira Ahmed is a journalist and broadcaster who presents Front Row and Newswatch for the BBC Alice Bloch is a critic and producer. She makes the The Sociological Review's podcast Uncommon Sense Kit Chapman is a science writer and adventurer. His latest book is Racing Green (Bloomsbury Sigma) Soraya Chemaly is the author of Rage Becomes Her: The Power of Women’s Anger (Atria Books) Marcus Chown is the author of many books on science. His latest is Breakthrough (Faber & Faber) Amanda Coakley is an award-winning Central Europe correspondent Caroline Crampton is a podcaster and author of The Way to the Sea: The Forgotten Histories of the Thames Estuary (Granta) Rami Gabriel is associate professor of psychology at Columbia College Chicago Kaya Genç is an author and journalist based in Istanbul Keith Kahn-Harris is a witer and sociologist Charlie Lynch is a social and cultural historian based at the University of Glasgow Mathew Lyons is a historian, writer and author of The Favourite: Ralegh and His Queen (Constable) Chris Maslanka is the author of several puzzle books Andrew Mueller is the author of I Wouldn’t Start from Here: A Misguided Tour of the Early 21st Century (Portobello) J. P. O'Malley is a literary critic and interviewer Emma Park is is a freelance writer and editor of the Freethinker magazine. Lucy Popescu is editor of the anthology A Country to Call Home (Unbound) and a literary critic James Robins is a journalist and historian. His first book is When We Dead Awaken: Australia, New Zealand, and the Armenian Genocide (Bloomsbury) Michael Rosen is a poet and broadcaster. His latest book is Many Different Kinds of Love: A Story of Life, Death and the NHS (Ebury) Peter Salmon is author of An Event, Perhaps: A Biography of Jacques Derrida (Verso) Jonathan Shipley is a freelance author who has written for the BBC, Discover, Los Angeles Times and others Laurie Taylor is president of the Rationalist Association and the presenter of Thinking Allowed on BBC Radio 4 Amy Zegart is the Cox Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institution and professor of political science by courtesy at Stanford University New Humanist, ISSN 0306-512X, is published four times a year by the Rationalist Association © 2022 New Humanist Printed by Blackmore Ltd, Dorset The views expressed in New Humanist are those of the authors and do not necessarily represent those of the Rationalist Association New Humanist | Autumn 2022 5

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Contents Autumn 2022

REGULARS

p. 3 Editor’s Note p. 6 The Q&A Francis Fukuyama p. 10 Witness Compiled by our team p. 71 Crossword Set by Chaliapin p. 73 Quiz Set by Chris Maslanka

COLUMNS

p. 8 Soapbox Back to the Bronze Age By Samira Ahmed p. 16 Rights The "crime" of abortion By Soraya Chemaly p. 70 In a word "Scandal" By Michael Rosen p. 74 Endgame My final resting place By Laurie Taylor

FEATURES

p. 18 Cover story Propaganda is key in

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Caroline Crampton on television after #MeToo on page 48

“Kurt Vonnegut has been called a Christ-loving atheist” Jonathan Shipley, page 56

conflict, but can we ever tell the truth about war? By Peter Salmon p. 22 Technology How quantum computers could give us superhuman intelligence By Marcus Chown p. 26 Ideas Can spies get better at predicting the future? By Amy Zegart p. 30 Religion The serious side of the Flying Spaghetti Monster By Emma Park p. 34 Ethics When is scientific research beyond the pale? By Kit Chapman p. 38 Psychology Every era has its myths and rituals – ours come from psychology By Rami Gabriel p. 43 Reportage Viktor Orbán's dangerous model of Christan Democracy By Amanda Coakley

CULTURE

p. 48 Television What does TV look like in the post-#MeToo era? By Caroline Crampton

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