New Humanist Update

New issue online is

May/June issue of New Humanist is going online now:

Read Roger Scruton on the ethical necessity of pessimism, AC Grayling taking issue with Terry Eagleton's On Evil (remixed just for the website), Aaron Rosen's elegant argument for religious art; Laurie Taylor's Endgame column and Martin Rowson's diary

All here

Creations in Bad Faith - Martin Rowson's drawing for New Humanist exhibition

Creations in Bad Faith - Martin Rowson's drawing for New Humanist exhibition

8-12 June at the Menier Gallery, 51 Southwark Street, SE1 1RU.

You are invited to the Private View (free drinks) and charity auction on 8 June at 6.30.

Laurie Taylor on the gavel.

Come and get yourself an original signed Rowson and support the Rationalist Association at the same time.

Download your invitation (PDF 780KB)

Web exclusives

Just published at www.newhumanist.org.uk

Pervez Hoodbhoy, Nuclear physicist and prominent Pakistani secularist, explains what was behind the recent attempt to bomb Times Square

Is Chris Morris's Jihad film funny?

The science of Ian McEwan

Hay fever

New Humanist editor Caspar Melville will be doing a couple of things at the How The Light Gets In philosophy festival in Hay on Wye on Sunday 30 May. First a little talk on the dilemmas of humanism somewhere in a tent in a field at 11pm Sunday morning, and at 5pm an 'in conversation with philosopher/DJ Ewan Pearson about dance music and philosophy, and stuff. If you are in Hay do drop by. Howthelightgetsin.org