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PPolitics & Law

A Republic on Fire: ICE’s Reign of Terror

  • byRon Fischer
US immigration agents are a force of intimidation, fear, damage, and death in today’s America. ICE agents and others can no longer be viewed as an imminent threat to this Republic, but rather a clear and present danger to our civil stability, Constitutional rights, and long-standing American principles and values.
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Freethought History Webinar #9: Bradlaugh and India: A Trans-Imperial History of Freethought and Republicanism. With Barathy M.G. (14 April 2026).

  • byDaniel James Sharp
An invitation to the ninth in our Freethought History Webinar series.
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Judeo-Christian religionists cannot ‘liberate’ Muslims (or Iran)

  • byKunwar Khuldune Shahid
In a Pentagon press briefing this month, amid the ongoing war with Iran, US Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth…
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PPhilosophy & Religion

Islam’s tyrannical costumes

  • byNicholas E. Meyer
With the veil being an expression of male domination over women, religion is the handy tool that keeps it in place. A sneaky way to counter it in secularly-governed countries is included here—though it would take pluck to carry out.
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Why is the Office for Students not protecting free speech at ‘theological colleges’?

  • byChris HigginsandKeith Sharpe
Universities in the UK are among the best in the world, a distinction built on the longstanding independence…
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‘What if I really am a goddess?’ Satyajit Ray’s ‘Devi’ and the politics of patriarchal control in South Asia

  • byAfra Sampreety
On a quiet evening in Satyajit Ray’s film Devi (1960), a young woman sits draped in silk, her…
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An Invitation to Hitchmas (12 April, Manchester)

  • byDaniel James Sharp
NOTE (ADDED 22/03/2026): I have been informed by the organisers that this event has been cancelled. Apologies for…
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Interview with Steven Pinker: A Little (Common) Knowledge is a Dangerous Thing

  • byDaniel James Sharp
Steven Pinker is a cognitive psychologist, public intellectual, and the author of many fine books including How the…
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