The elephant bird’s tale
In an exclusive extract from his latest book, a Chaucerian pilgrimage to the remote past, Richard Dawkins roams the lost continent of Gondwana
Rationalism, Atheism & Humanism
Anarchist with attitude: Laurie Taylor interviews Linda Smith
Comedian Linda Smith, who died in 2006, was the president of the British Humanist Association. In this interview from 2004 she talks to Laurie Taylor about atheism, authority and her…
Diderot’s triumph
Haydn Mason consults the original humanist bible
Searching for secular Islam
Ziauddin Sardar proposes new ways to separate religion and politics in the Muslim world
Love thine enemy
Not long ago, humanists could feel that theirs was the way of the future. But now, Dave Belden argues, we will need to relearn how to make common cause with…
Good without God
Jim Herrick reconciles the mystic and the rational
Reasoning Away God
Jonathan Derbyshire on a sophisticated and clear critique of theism
Where the atheists roam
Christopher Duva longs for a godless homeland
Market of opinions
The founder of the Gallup Organisation once said: "I could prove God statistically." How much should we trust these pollsters, asks Frank Jordans
The scandal of our time
Editorial