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  • The art of certainty

    We need to teach children faith first before they can learn to doubt, says Roger Scruton, in his response to Danny Postel

  • The art of uncertainty

    Last issue’s article about how to raise children as humanists received hundreds of responses. Here its author, Danny Postel, chooses his favourites

  • Hatchet job

    Bill Cooke responds to R Joseph Hoffmann on the legacy of Paul Kurtz

  • Prometheus bound

    Paul Kurtz, champion of American secular humanism, has died. Here, in a piece from 2009, former colleague (and ex-friend) R Joseph Hoffman discusses his career and how it all went wrong

  • What kind of humanist are you?

    Are you hardline or happy, hedonist or hounded? Answer the questions below and find out how far your personality suits your philosophy

  • Good books?

    What can humanist parents use in the battle against religious indoctrination? Danny Postel investigates

  • Tragic hero: Laurie Taylor interviews Terry Eagleton

    Laurie Taylor meets the Marxist critic gunning for the New Atheists

  • Probably? Not!

    Atheists shouldn’t be afraid to be certain, says Michael Neumann

  • Gothic revival

    Outsider, troublemaker, genteel bum – Nick Mamatas celebrates the legacy of Edgar Allan Poe, the master of the perverse

  • Free market faith

    Globalisation is leading to more belief, not less. Caspar Melville talks to the editor of The Economist about his new book tracing the rise and rise of religion