Inside Jonathan Israel on the Enlightenment • Scientific discoveries • Reptilian overlords

New Humanist A quarterly journal of ideas, science and culture from the Rationalist Association Winter 2014

Read, write, imagine

An essay by Philip Pullman

Rahila Gupta Women need allies in the fight against religious fundamentalism

Sarah Ditum The end is nigh! Visions of the apocalypse, past and present

RATIONALIST a s s o c i a t i o n

Vol 129 No 4 £4.95 €6 US$7

ISSN 0306-512X newhumanist.org.uk