Behind the couch
Was Freud really a rationalist? Lie back and let Alfred Tauber convince you
Rationalism, Atheism & Humanism
Cold reading
Comic book legend Alan Moore, author of Watchmen and V for Vendetta, kindly allowed us to run this chilling rationalist short story from his excellent magazine, Dodgem Logic. Lock the…
Book review: Self Comes to Mind by Antonio Damasio and The Tell-Tale Brain by VS Ramachandran
Can the brain be explained? Louise Foxcroft reads two of the world's leading neuroscientists to find out
Delusions of grandeur
Information systems professor Ian Angell tells Laurie Taylor where science has gone wrong
It’s the faith, stupid!
Social scientist Olivier Roy has been tracking religion for three decades. Caspar Melville talks to him about his new book Holy Ignorance
Quite contrary: inside the Battle of Ideas
The associates of the Institute of Ideas certainly have a talent for getting noticed. But is there more to them than hollow liberal-baiting? asks Richard Wilson
Rationalism’s dirty secret
John Appleby unravels the history of humanism’s dalliance with eugenics.
Careless talk?
Some secularists believe that any communication with believers amounts to collaboration. Paul Sims isn’t so sure
Bad Faith Awards 2010
Who gave the silliest sermon or pious pronouncement of the past year? Thousands of you voted and the results are in
The Blair-Hitch project
Hitchens debating religion with Blair in Toronto was a heavyweight contest worth staying up for. Matthew Adams keeps the scores