Human folly
Half a millennium ago a book by a Catholic theologian unwittingly ignited a secular revolution. Matthew Adams salutes Erasmus
Ideas
Varieties of irreligious experience
There are many ways not to believe. Jonathan Rée on the evoluton of atheist thought
Book review: Ragnarok – The End of the Gods
Philip Womack is chilled by AS Byatt's magnificent retelling of the Norse myth
Quiz: Come on, you’ve urn-ed it
It's pot luck for bankers' bonuses with New Humanist quizmaster Chris Maslanka
Book review: The Matter With Us by John Rawles
Richard Norman explores the matter of the human predicament
Book review: A God of One’s Own by Ulrich Beck
Keith Kahn-Harris discovers religion in modernity
Undiscovered
A misreading of science has persuaded us that we are no more than our evolved brains. But, argues Raymond Tallis, a more expansive philosophy of humanity is mounting a fight-back
Ways of seeing John Berger
Marxist, novelist, art historian, farmer, philosopher, artist, object of reverance, provocateur: Laurie Taylor looks at the 85-year-old polymath from every angle
No doubt
Since there is nothing useful about the God hypothesis, we can happily discard it. Physicist Mano Singham makes the scientific case for atheism
The sociologist on holiday
Les Back has some suggestions of which books not to take on vacation