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IN THIS ISSUE

Humanist NEW

Volume 122 No 2 March/April 2007

EDITOR Caspar Melville

COMMISSIONING EDITOR Laurie Taylor

ASSOCIATE EDITOR Sally Feldman

DESIGNER Paul Anderson

CARTOONS Martin Rowson Judy Walker

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Website www.newhumanist.org.uk ISSN 0306-512X Published by the Rationalist Association. Available on microfilm for libraries in the USA from: Proquest,300 Northzeeb Road, Ann Arbour,Michigan,USA RA ASSOCIATES VICE PRESIDENTS Baroness Susan Greenfield,Paul Kurtz,Laurie Taylor HONORARY ASSOCIATES David Aaronovitch,Peter Atkins,Lord Birt, Harold Blackham,Colin Blakemore, Alan Brownjohn,Colin Campbell,Philip Campbell,Noam Chomsky,Bernard Crick,Helena Cronin,Richard Dawkins, Sanal Edamaruku,Paul Edwards,Ekow Eshun,Winston Fletcher,Antony Flew, Michael Foot,AC Grayling,Stuart Hall, Tony Harrison,Simon Heffer,James Hemming,Christopher Hitchens,Eric Hobsbawm,Richard Hoggart,Ted Honderich,Linton Kwesi Johnson,Sir Ludovic Kennedy,Richard Leakey,Sir Michael Levey,Sir John Maddox,Haydn Mason,George Melly,Jonathan Miller, Edwin Mullins, Conor Cruise O’Brien, John Postgate,Claire Rayner,Amartya Sen,David Starkey,Ralph Steadman, DJ Stewart,Ian Stewart,Hazhir Teimourian,Claire Tomalin,David Tribe, Baroness Turner of Camden,Arnold Wesker,Francis Wheen,Lewis Wolpert

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CONTENTS VOLUME 122 NO 2 MARCH/APRIL 2007

REGULARS

3 EDITORIAL I respect your ignorance

6 DIZZY BRUNETTE Robin Ince’s diary

7 PARISH NEWS

11 FACE VALUE Nicholas Phillipson on Adam Smith

39 POEM Booksby Nick Drake

40 YOURS SCEPTICALLY Readers’ letters

41 CONCRETE REASONING Chris Maslanka’s latest brain teaser

42 ENDGAME Laurie Taylor luvs skool

27NAUGHTY BUT NICE Could pornography be fun? asks Nina Power

BOOK REVIEWS

34MICHAEL BYWATER rediscovers a tragi-comic classic

WINSTON FLETCHER takes on Kasparov,and wins

MARTINA EVANS is haunted by the ghost of Poe

BRENDA MADDOX is swept off her feet by an astronomical biography

DANIEL MILLER is battered and brusied by Sven Lundqvist

MICHAEL BINYON is not blown away by the Windy City