Human Rights & Ethics

Sex and the stupid girl

Liz Funk on the explosion of Americas raunch culture

What effect will civil partnershipshave on same sex couples? Carol Smart reports on her recent study

How far would you go to help a friend? Jenni Murray enters into a very final pact

Is obsession with wrongs of the past threatening our commitment to the future, asks Stan Cohen

Erwin James on a remarkable book written from behind bars

Sally Feldman explores the untamed frontiers of fashion, fetish and fur

David Pollock asks why the government is reluctant to grant humanists their human rights

Manmade problems require manmade solutions, argues Ebenezer Obadare

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

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