Quiz: Come on, you’ve urn-ed it
It's pot luck for bankers' bonuses with New Humanist quizmaster Chris Maslanka
Ideas
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
The sociologist on holiday
Les Back has some suggestions of which books not to take on vacation
Editorial: Big books
Bibles, doubt and morality without God
Quiz: A lurgical problem
Quizmaster Chris Maslanka challenges you to sidestep death and defeat the dreaded lurgy
Woman of substance
Barbara Wootton attended the League of Nations, helped abolish the death penalty and became a magistrate before she was eligible to vote. Ann Oakley reviews a truly remarkable career
Changing course
The 'Arab Spring' has changed how we teach Middle East politics forever, says Kerem Oktem