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Faith Watch, February 2024
Education
Hamas in the UN – an Islamist GP – Christianity vs America – Modi's triumph – Navajo vs NASA –…
Image of the week: Filippino Lippi’s ‘Triumph of St Thomas Aquinas over the Heretics’
Image of the week
A detail from Filippino Lippi’s late fifteenth-century fresco, held in the Carafa Chapel of the Santa Maria sopra…
Year in review: 2023
Blasphemy & Free Speech
The editorial team looks back at the major issues debated in the Freethinker this year.
‘I do not think you are going to get a secular state without getting rid of the monarchy’: interview with Graham Smith
Civil Liberties
Assistant editor Daniel James Sharp caught up with the anti-monarchy activist Graham Smith at the National Secular Society's 2023 Members'…
Christopher Hitchens and the long afterlife of Thomas Paine
History
Daniel Sharp examines the influence of Thomas Paine on Christopher Hitchens, and their many points of resemblance.
‘This rebarbative profession’ – Rory Stewart’s ‘Politics on the Edge’, reviewed
Arts & Books
Daniel James Sharp finds Rory Stewart's memoir charming but flawed.
Faith Watch, November 2023
Faith Watch
Abrahamic discord – Narges Mohammadi in prison – an Islamic party pooped – Christians against sponges – gay orgies in…
Cancel culture and religious intolerance: ‘Falsely Accused of Islamophobia’, by Steven Greer
Blasphemy & Free Speech
'Religious fanatics are past masters of cancel culture,' argues Daniel Sharp, reviewing Greer's book.