Rationalism, Atheism & Humanism

Diary: Comic timing

Shappi Khorsandi reflects on the glamorous life of an atheist stand-up

Editorial: I respect your ignorance

Humanists are not dogmatists obsessed with belief, says Caspar Melville

Naughty but nice

Contemporary pornography is a hideous distortion of the joys of sex. Yet, argues Nina Power, it could all have been so different

Infantile disorder

Michael Bywater won't be joining the new atheists

Diary: Putting on the God helmet

Playright and director Mick Gordon describes how he went about creating religious voices for his new play

Editorial: Bleaker still and bleaker?

What do they mean by 'post-secular'?

Anti-God squad

Caspar Melville speaks to the Rational Response Squad, America's new web-savvy atheist activists

Hostile takeover

A powerful coalition is trying to define Europe as Christian. And, warns Donald Sassoon, they must be stopped at once

Deep-boned sadness

Caspar Melville remembers a melancholic master, the novelist Kurt Vonnegut

Cosy concrete

Alvar Aalto's organic modernism may be seductive. But, warns Owen Hatherley, it can also lead to the banal