Inside Could you forgive a murderer? • Politics in Westeros • Michael Rosen on language

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

Summer 2015 Published since 1885

Is there life beyond work?

Emma Dowling on jobs and the mind

Kenan Malik There’s more to free will than our biology

Samira Shackle The rise and rise of faith schools

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Vol 130 No 2 £4.95 €6 US$7

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