Bad Faith Award 2011: it’s Dorries by a landslide
New Humanist readers vote overwhelmingly for the Conservative MP Nadine Dorries as 2011's leading enemy of reason
Politics & Conflict
Editorial: Oh my America
Faith and the American way
Ireland’s humanist president
Padraig Reidy welcomes the election of Michael D Higgins
Looking for Transwonderland by Noo Saro-Wiwa
Natalie Haynes enjoys a Nigerian travelogue
Memory loss
A rewritten Hungarian constitution is part of a Europe-wide process of evading responsibility for the crimes of the past, says Thomas Land
Book review: Rainbow Pie: A memoir of redneck America
Owen Jones enjoys a melancholy protrait of America's underclass
A theocracy on the Nile?
The triumph of the Islamist parties in Egypt's elections has raised fears of a religious takeover of the state. Austin Mackell reports from Cairo
Against the barbarians
Hannah Arendt’s humanism was not the opposite of religion but of self-absorption and totalitarianism, says Finn Bowring
Book review: The Dead Hand by David Hoffman
Michael Binyon revisits Cold War brinksmanship
Return of the moral minority
Fire-and-brimstone evangelists are usually associated with the US. But turn to the BBC at the weekend and you’ll see they’re enjoying a revival on these shores, says Francis Beckett