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New Humanist 3/2008
3/2008
Editorial
With the decline of the old-style Christian Right, are US evangelicals growing up?
Parish News
Diary
Never mind the barricades, man the hedgerows
Letters to the editor
Power to the pulpit
Religion has always been an election issue in America. But in the current campaign it's not just the Republicans who are courting the faith vote
Death on air
Sanal Edamaruku on the night a guru tried to kill him live on Indian TV
Memories of a promised land
Sixty years since its foundation Mike Marqusse and Eliane Glaser explore the state of Israel
Opinion
In science, as in life, some stories are too good to be true
Forked tongue
Can Muslim "moderate" Tariq Ramadan be trusted?
Field of nightmares
Summer festivals should be avoided at all costs
Drambuie in Damascus
Forget the booze cruise, with a little patience, you can get sozzled in Syria
A small point of doctrine
Taking your own life is a mortal sin, says the Catholic Church. Unless you happen to be a bishop
Writing on the wall
Henri Lefebvre, the theoretician of the Paris uprising of 1968, saw that society's most profound truths were etched on everyday life
Heights of madness
As Sex and the City totters on to the big screen, Sally Feldman celebrates the agony and ecstasy of the high heel
Western front
While secularists sleep well-funded creationists are on the march in Europe
Face to face
How Levinas broke away from Heidegger
Book reviews
Stephen Howe asks why Gordon Brown is endorsing Neocon history; Jonathan Derbyshire admires a dystopian classic; Simon May listens to the dead philosophers; Helene Joffe prepares for the worst; Bill Thompson has mixed feelings about Susan Greenfield; Philip Womack enjoys Philip Ball's debut
Endgame -- Motley Crew
Laurie Taylor gets medieval with the cults