Last words
Lifelong humanist Lionel Elvin died in 2005. This is his final testament
Rationalism, Atheism & Humanism
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
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
Pleasure principles
In the second of our series on thinkers who are significant for humanism, Peter Cave marks the 200th anniversary of the birth of John Stuart Mill
Editorial: Start making sense
Do you get the feeling that you're constantly swamped by religion? Are you worried that the humanist, rationalist or secularist world view is losing out to zealotry? Is reason on…