By Lloyd Hawkeye Robertson Lloyd traces the Enlightenment as a long, interconnected process of loosening institutional control over knowledge and individual judgement, reflecting on the challenges this legacy continues to face. He explains the purpose of the New Enlightenment Project , of which he is President, and recounts a rejected proposal to the World Humanist Congress as a missed opportunity to use Enlightenment skills to understand ‘the other’. The emergence of modern individualism,...

By Lloyd Hawkeye Robertson In this article, Lloyd reflects on his early years in the socialist Left and how its attitudes toward Israel and Jews evolved after 1967. Re-examining old assumptions about empire, Zionism and oppression, he argues that parts of the modern Left have turned anti-Zionism into a new form of antisemitism. His essay calls for a return to Enlightenment reason, compassion and open dialogue as the true foundations of humanist thought. Lloyd is President of the New...

By Lloyd Hawkeye Robertson In this article, Lloyd explores the challenge of fostering respectful, reason-based dialogue across...