Anti-God squad
Caspar Melville speaks to the Rational Response Squad, America's new web-savvy atheist activists
Rationalism, Atheism & Humanism
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
Free from crooked things
Buddhism is fatalistic, deeply misogynist and riven with superstition. And yet, argues Karen Connelly, it also inspires resistance to tyranny and the fight for freedom
The Threat to Reason by Dan Hind
Jonathan Derbyshire is unthreatened by an enlightenment sceptic
Thinker: Jean Meslier
Colin Brewer on Jean Meslier, a priest who left a deathbed bombshell
Through the looking glass
AC Grayling finds that in the work of leading philosopher John Gray, everything is the wrong way round and upside down
Clouded judgement
Its not just the flickering flames, the calm and cool that humanists are giving up, argues Sally Feldman. It's a precious part of themselves
Atheism à la mode
What is the outspoken French atheist philosopher Michel Onfray really saying? Caspar Melville meets him and canvasses some expert opinion.