Monkey business
A new book on apes has nothing to teach us about human nature says Steven Rose
Rationalism, Atheism & Humanism
French lessons
Jim Herrick reports from the world's largest gathering of freethinkers
Editorial: State of mind
New editor Caspar Melville wishes New Humanist a happy 120th birthday
Lobbing Horseshit
With everyone talking about the need for 'respect' Martin Rowson reckons it's time to come clean about what they really mean
Last words
Lifelong humanist Lionel Elvin died in 2005. This is his final testament
Editorial: Top Marx
What has happened to Marxism? And in particular, the angry passionate British Marxist intellectuals, who used to so enliven politics in the '60s and '70s?
Under the microscope
Jonathan Rée on Daniel Dennett's attempt to do away with religion scientifically
Design for living
Bauhaus architects wanted to build a more rational world. Hugh Pearman explores the links between humanism and the Modernist movement
Spinoza the atheist
This reconsideration by Steven Nadler is the first in a series on philosophers who have particular, if sometimes unacknowledged, significance for humanists.
Projecting the human
Andrew Tudor searches for the soul of cinema