Bosphorus Straits
Ahead of a critical election columnist Ahmet Altan warns that his country’s current political crisis could have fateful consequences for us all
Rationalism, Atheism & Humanism
Monkey business
A new book on apes has nothing to teach us about human nature says Steven Rose
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
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
Spirited away
Some atheists start believing in anything after they give up believing in God, says Meera Nanda
Meme Wars (part 2)
Natural selection applies to everything. Ideas evolve just as life does, says Susan Blackmore