A new book on apes has nothing to teach us about human nature says Steven Rose
Jim Herrick reports from the world's largest gathering of freethinkers
New editor Caspar Melville wishes New Humanist a happy 120th birthday
With everyone talking about the need for 'respect' Martin Rowson reckons it's time to come clean about what they really mean
In the second of our series on thinkers who are significant for humanism, Peter Cave marks the 200th anniversary of the birth of John Stuart Mill
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.
Andrew Tudor searches for the soul of cinema
Progress is an illusion and liberal humanists are adolescent romantics. John Gray tells Laurie Taylor why he believes we're all deluded
Do you get the feeling that you're constantly swamped by religion? Are you worried that the humanist, rationalist or secularist world view is losing out to zealotry? Is reason on the back foot?
Rather than bicker with believers, we should join forces with them, says Bernard Crick