Identity crisis
Stressing racial differences leads to separatism, argues Elisabeth Lasch-Quinn
Human Rights & Ethics
Uncommon decency
We must reclaim the language of human rights, says Conor Gearty
Car wars
Why do women drivers get such a dreadful press? Sally Feldman steers through the sexual politics of wheel power
Sex Crimes
Brian Whitaker traces the evolution of Middle-Eastern homophobia
Birth Control
Barckley Sumner warns of an increasingly common new form of eugenics
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
Carbolic and Confession: Laurie Taylor interviews Helena Kennedy
Helena Kennedy tells Laurie Taylor about her Catholic childhood in Glasgow and the roots of her passion for justice