Volume 121

Issue 1: January/February 2006

The rise of Hamas, Laurie Taylor confronts John Gray, Conor Gearty on the future of human rights, Jesscia Williams on humanist charities, Mozart, Mossolini and Manhatten...

Issue 2: March/April 2006

David Katz on 'the new apocalysts', Stuart Hall interviewed by Laurie Taylor, Hugh Pearman on Modernist architecture and utopia, Jonathan Rée reviews Daniel Dennett, Stephen Eric Bronner on the radical Enlightenment...

Issue 3: May/June 2006

Meme wars: Susan Blackmore and Adam Kuper debate the cultural gene, Homosexuality in the Arab world by Brian Whitaker, Laurie Taylor takes tea with the millenarians, Meera Nanda asks why Sam Harris lets the New Agers off the hook, Lewis Wolpert on evolution and Martin Rowson's unique review of Will Eisner (its a drawing!)

Issue 4: July/August 2006

Cover story: No Man is an Island, Bella Thomas on Castro at 80, Jenni Murray's death wish, Stan Cohen on the politics of apology, Lynda Nead on the cult of the hopeless romantic, AC Grayling says Kant really was an atheist, Michael Marsden takes the Alpha Course, Ashley Kahn remembers John Coltrane, Douglas Rushkoff on his bible-inspired comic, Michael Bywater graduates, Liz Funk on raunch culture, Merlin Holland reports from Moscow's Gay Pride march. Plus: Francis Wheen on Das Kapital, Erwin James on US prison's, and Sally Feldman on Howard Jacobson.

Issue 5: September/October 2006

Cover story: Sally Feldman on the return of fur to the catwalks, Laurie Taylor interviews Michael Frayn, Emiko Ohnuki-Teirney reads the Kamikaze Diaries, Brian Morris remembers the pioneers of humanist ecology, Caspar Melville on the little monsters, Imprisoned Iranian philosopher Rahmin Jahanbegloo calls for a liberal revival, Jenny Joseph discovers the letters of Mrs George Orwell, Michael Binyon on the glorious revolution, Peter Woit visits the Goldilocks’ Universe, Nina Power on Paul Auster, Ebenezer Obadare on Ngugi's powerful new novel and new poetry from Alan Brownjohn

Issue 6: November/December 2006

Cover story: Cheating death, Anita Silvers takes a trip with the transhumanists who are trying to perfect humanity through technology, Dorothea Lange's lost photographs of US internment camps are unearthed by Linda Gordon, John Mortimer shares a glass with Laurie Taylor, Jonathan Rée consults the latest humanist dictionary, Sally Feldman on perfume, Ron Dudai in Tel Aviv visits the men of violence who have turned to peace and Stephen Eric Bronner goes to Darfur. Plus Julian Baggini on Hume, Michael Bywater on infantile fundamentalism, Naomi Sakr on al-jazeera, Nick Cohen outs the Institute of Ideas, Stan Cohen reviews Primo Levi, Jonathan Derbyshire on EO Wilson and Michael Binyon sees the face of God

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