Can there be peace in the culture wars? Interview with A.C. Grayling
On 15 April 2025, I spoke with the philosopher A.C. Grayling about his new book Discriminations: Making Peace…
Freethought History Webinar #3: A Paine Party? Thomas Paine’s Relevance in America’s Gilded Age—and Today. With Dermot Trainor (27 May)
An invitation to the third in our Freethought History Webinar series.
The burning question: are blasphemy laws back?
This article is republished with permission from the National Secular Society website, where it first appeared on 9…
Some Brief Reflections on the Death of a Pope
Here we go again. Another round of swooning, gushing, and utterly emetic media coverage for a deceased pontiff.…
The Racism of Anti-Racists: Bourdieu, Said, and Inverted Orientalism
There’s a kind of violence that doesn’t wear a uniform, doesn’t raise its voice, and doesn’t need to…
Badenoch, Starmer, ‘Adolescence’, and the ignored problem of religious misogyny
Kemi Badenoch, leader of the Conservative Party, was recently confronted by the presenters of BBC Breakfast in a…
From the archive: the case for free speech and against anti-prejudice legislation, by David Tribe
An evergreen argument for free speech from 1960 by a former Freethinker editor.