Volume 121 Issue 4 July/August 2006
- Editorial: One year on
- I became editor of New Humanist a year ago, just as religious fundamentalism was making its remorseless march to the centre of the global agenda.
Cover Stories
- Castro at 80
- Fidel Castro's reign over Cuba has been characterised by conservatism and authoritarianism, says Isabella Thomas
Features
- Alpha male
- Michael Marsden goes in search of the Holy Spirit
- Fiendish summer quiz
- Win a host of prizes
- Don't look back
- Is obsession with wrongs of the past threatening our commitment to the future, asks Stan Cohen
- Sandals and spooks
- Why did the British secret services take such a keen interest in the activities of folk icon Ewan MacColl? Ken Hunt digs in the archives
- 'Moscow isn't Sodom'
- Merlin Holland joins the first Gay Pride march in the Russian capital
Culture
- Hopeless romantics
- Lynda Nead takes in the National Gallery's new show
- Capital stuff
- Francis Wheen brings the same panache to his new book that he brought to his excellent biography of Mar, says Toby Saul
- Five thousand years of bitterness
- Sally Feldman on the dazzling flaws of a Jewish chronicle
- Supreme being
- Ashley Kahn on Coltrane's spiritual journey
- Fairy story
- Martina Evans reviews a new book about Bridget Cleary who was burned as a witch just over a century ago
- Banged up
- Erwin James on a remarkable book written from behind bars
Columns
- Goodbye to all that
- Michael Bywater misses his ivory tower
- Wishful thinking
- Humanists should be careful not to confuse what ought and what is, says Jeremy Stangroom
- God in the gutter
- Douglas Rushkoff strips the Bible back to basics
- Reasonable bounds
- Continuing our series reclaiming thinkers for humanism, AC Grayling celebrates Immanuel Kant
- Suicide sisters
- How far would you go to help a friend? Jenni Murray enters into a very final pact
- Sex and the stupid girl
- Liz Funk on the explosion of Americas raunch culture
- Happy ever after
- What effect will civil partnershipshave on same sex couples? Carol Smart reports on her recent study
- Hot flushes
- Laurie Taylor remembers a bad period