Car wars
Why do women drivers get such a dreadful press? Sally Feldman steers through the sexual politics of wheel power
Human Rights & Ethics
Sex Crimes
Brian Whitaker traces the evolution of Middle-Eastern homophobia
Birth Control
Barckley Sumner warns of an increasingly common new form of eugenics
Because you’re worth it
Why do all the major religions have a fetish about women's hair? Sally Feldman celebrates a hidden source of power
Culture of fear
Judith Vidal-Hall reviews a new collection on censorship
Believe it or not
David Pollock asks why the government is reluctant to grant humanists their human rights
God can’t save Africa
Manmade problems require manmade solutions, argues Ebenezer Obadare
After bombs and ashes
Moving back from Yale to the London School of Economics, Professor Paul Gilroy finds his home town changed but the people just as mixed up
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
You shall go to the ball
Misogynist trap, soppy fantasy, or universal truth? Sally Feldman waves a magic wand over Cinderella