Inside Leaving the Catholic Church • Derrida vs the rationalists • Robots with feelings

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

Winter 2016 Published since 1885

RATIONALIST association

Danger in the deep Mark Lorch on what fossil fuels are doing to our oceans

Keith Kahn-Harris Zionism, anti-Semitism and the left

Angela Saini What’s the meaning of modesty?

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ISSN 0306-512X newhumanist.org.uk

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