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  • Book review: The Immortalisation Commission by John Gray

    Owen Hatherley tires of the same old song

  • Rhyme & reason

    200 years ago Percy Bysshe Shelley was expelled from Oxford for publishing ‘The Necessity of Atheism’. Jonathan Rée reassesses the romantic poet’s rationalism

  • Count yourself out

    Winston Fletcher warns that the question asking your religion, included again in this year’s census, is designed to distort

  • The god confusion

    In trying to make religion sound more logical and scientific, are educated Indians actually having a crisis of faith? asks Angela Saini

  • Things that go bump in the night

    Why do people think they can see ghosts, ghoulies and gods? Richard Wiseman explains

  • Editorial: oh we of little faith

    Are faith and religion necessarily intertwined?

  • Editorial: it just ain't natural

    We shouldn't allow myth and dogma to cloud rational evidence-based argument

  • A many splendour'd thing

    Moons and Junes, hearts, diamonds and red, red roses – this Valentine's Day, what could be more humanist than passionate romance? But, warns Sally Feldman, it may also be a dangerous delusion

  • Behind the couch

    Was Freud really a rationalist? Lie back and let Alfred Tauber convince you

  • Cold reading

    Comic book legend Alan Moore, author of Watchmen and V for Vendetta, kindly allowed us to run this chilling rationalist short story from his excellent magazine, Dodgem Logic. Lock the windows, draw the curtains and let him spin you a winter's tale...