Volume 121 Issue 2 March/April 2006

Editorial: Top Marx: What has happened to Marxism? And in particular, the angry passionate British Marxist intellectuals, who used to so enliven politics in the '60s and '70s?

Cover Story

Apocalysts now: What if you not only believed that the world was going to end but had the power to make it happen? David S Katz explores the modern occult

'Taking offence is the best form of attack': Martin Rowson discovers just how dangerous his job can be
Spinoza the atheist: This reconsideration by Steven Nadler is the first in a series on philosophers who have particular, if sometimes unacknowledged, significance for humanists.
Anorak attack: Laurie Taylor goes into orbit
Losing Faith: Andrew Copson finds danger in Blair's education reforms

What's in a name?: Jihad Fakhreddine despairs at the strangling of Arab secularism
Continental rift: We first reported on Dyab Abou Jahjah, the controversial leader of Belgium's Arab European League, in July 2004. Since then French riots and the cartoon crisis have raised his profile. At a meeting in Rotterdam he debated with equally controversial Muslim advocate Tariq Ramadan. Rosemary Bechler was there
Car wars: Why do women drivers get such a dreadful press? Sally Feldman steers through the sexual politics of wheel power
Design for living: Bauhaus architects wanted to build a more rational world. Hugh Pearman explores the links between humanism and the Modernist movement
Under the microscope: Jonathan Rée on Daniel Dennett's attempt to do away with religion scientifically
Culture's revenge: Laurie Taylor interviews Stuart Hall: Disillusioned but not defeated, Stuart Hall talks to Laurie Taylor about the limits of liberalism

Frozen waste: Stuart Sim reviews the latest from an up-and-coming Canadian novelist
Lost plot: Brenda Maddox reviews Mary Loudon's memoir of a lost sister
Against the tide: Stephen Howe wallows in left melancholia
Projecting the human: Andrew Tudor searches for the soul of cinema
Fail better: Nina Power says the centenary of Samuel Beckett's birth is worth celebrating