New Humanist A quarterly journal of ideas, science and culture from the Rationalist Association Winter 2013

New Humanist A quarterly journal of ideas, science and culture from the Rationalist Association Winter 2013

Kenan Malik on why we have nothing to fear from diversity

Kenan Malik on why we have nothing to fear from diversity

Rachel Shabi How political Islam got its big break in Egypt –

and blew it

Simon Singh What I learned about maths from watching

The Simpsons

The God Debate

Is it time to move on from the New Atheism?

Plus Suzanne Moore • Breaking Bad • Will Self • new poetry Jenni Murray • the cult of Ayn Rand • Jonathan Rée on Adorno AL Kennedy • tiny universes • Socrates on smartphones

Vol 128 No 6 £4.95 €6 US$7 ISSN 0306-512X www.rationalist.org.uk RATIONALISTassociation