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• Spinoza the atheist

  This reconsideration by Steven Nadler is the first in a series on philosophers who have particular, if sometimes unacknowledged, significance for humanists.

• The debunkers

  India's rationalists are on the frontline of the battle between science and superstition. Caspar Melville reports on their fight to debunk "holy men"

• Hermann Bondi, 1919 - 2005

  Jane Wynne Willson remembers an extraordinary man

• ...or is that just what we could do without?

  We have all the rituals we need, counters AC Grayling

• No doubt

  Nina Power has some doubts about a new history of scepticism

• Notes from the Blasphemy Depot

  History is much on our minds this issue. This month we celebrate our 120th birthday.

• The blasphemers of Johnson's Court

  New Humanist was launched under the title Watts's Literary Guide 120 years ago this month. Jonathan Rée digs in the archives

• Is it time for humanists to start holding services?

  We all need rituals, says Dave Belden

• Nothing for the weekend

  Terry Sanderson warns that conscience chemists are coming your way

• Buggering on a pinhead

  Martin Rowson is delighted to report that religion is on it's last legs