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Volume 114 Issue 2 Summer 1999

Features

The future of the the planet
The centenary of the Rationalist Press Association is a good time to review where the future will take us saya James Hanning
The RPA at 100
This is a time for congratulations, for being thankful that the RPA has existed for a hundred years, and that it has done such good work.
A public presence
Bernard Crick reflects on 100 years of the RPA
Encourage young scepticism
Claire Rayner calls for a sceptical education
Rationalism in the South
Richard Leakey on African rationalism
Reason, the slave of passions
My own god is David Hume say Ludovic Kennedy

Cover Stories

Where Do We Go From Here?

Columns

Religion and the law
Conrad Russell reviews advances in human rights law
Let Freedom not Wither
Poet Alan Brownjohn is glad to live in a secular country
Centenary Address
Hermann Bondi, President of the RPA, celebrates 100 years
Clash of faiths
George Melly salutes 100 years of blasphemy
Hard brain, soft brain
Peter Atkins makes the case for hard thinking
Trust within Reason
Haydn Mason on different forms of rationalism
Can reason hold her throne?
Michael Levey speaks in support of reason
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