Volume 117 Issue 3 Autumn 2002
Cover Story
- God on the Box
- Victor Lewis-Smith tunes in to a very special broadcast from up high
Columns
- Begging Belief
- To give or not to give? Julian Baggini is philosophical about charity
- Reach for the Sky
- Editorial by Jim Herrick
- Vote Pilate
- Tom Baldwin catches the politicans at prayer
- Shut that Door
- Austin Williams suggests that you leave your house unlocked
- Blasphemy Law is dead
- Peter Tatchell fails to get arrested (for once)
- FCUK Off
- Diary by Laurie Taylor
- Star Struck
- Simon Hoggart laments a newspapers fall from reason
- Who's We?
- Michael Rosen ponders the smug pronoun
Features
- Apocalypse Now
- Why do so many of Americas most fundamentalist Christians support Israeli expansionism? asks Matt Cherry
- Jews without Jehovah
- Howard Jacobson on the spirituality of disbelief
- Saving Mankind?
- Brian Stableford questions the redemtive power of the superheroes
- Mother of DNA
- Brenda Maddox celebrates the clarity of Rosalind Franklin
- Puritan Atheist: Laurie Taylor interviews Christopher Hitchens
- Christopher Hitchens talks to Laurie Taylor about George Orwell, false gods and bogus utopias
Culture
- Heroes and Midgets
- An overview of modern political journalism, reviewed by Hazhir Teimourian
- The Life of Slime Mold
- John Gray's Straw Dogs reviewed by Ian Hargreaves
- Lifting the Lid on Theatre
- Marilyn Mason is impressed by the London International Festival of Theatre
- Freedom From Ghosts
- Tzvetan Todorov's Imperfect Garden, reviewed by AC Grayling
- Watching from the Sidelines
- Amit Chaudhuri's short stories reviewed by Jim Herrick
- Testament
- A poem by Susana Tampieri
- Disturbing the Silence
- Adrienne Rich's poems reviewed by Shirley Dent
- What comes naturally
- Nicholas Walter's introduction to Anarchism, reviewed by Colin Ward
- God's Vital Statistics
- A biography of God, reviewed by Jeremy Stangroom
