Design for living
Bauhaus architects wanted to build a more rational world. Hugh Pearman explores the links between humanism and the Modernist movement
Rationalism, Atheism & Humanism
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.
Notes from the Blasphemy Depot
History is much on our minds this issue. This month we celebrate our 120th birthday.
The blasphemers of Johnson’s Court
New Humanist was launched under the title Watts's Literary Guide 120 years ago this month. Jonathan Rée digs in the archives
Is it time for humanists to start holding services?
We all need rituals, says Dave Belden
…or is that just what we could do without?
We have all the rituals we need, counters AC Grayling
The debunkers
India's rationalists are on the frontline of the battle between science and superstition. Caspar Melville reports on their fight to debunk "holy men"
Hermann Bondi, 1919 – 2005
Jane Wynne Willson remembers an extraordinary man
No doubt
Nina Power has some doubts about a new history of scepticism
Buggering on a pinhead
Martin Rowson is delighted to report that religion is on it's last legs