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The Rise of the British Radical Right—First Reform, then Restore?
Politics & Law
The British radical right consists of two main strands: the Reform and Restore parties, led by Nigel Farage…
What Would Hitchens Think?
Blasphemy & Free Speech
Christopher Hitchens died at an inauspicious time. He was just shy of the full effects of the Arab…
Christopher Hitchens’s Theory of Historical Progress: A Cruel Moral Calculus
History
Christopher Hitchens wrote an article in October 1992 for The Nation magazine in which he ran completely counter…
Meaningful Control: The Pursuit of True Economic and Political Democracy
Politics & Law
Introduction The liberal, democratic, capitalist model of the West is arguably the most successful form of human government…
US Election 2024: Yet Another Farcical and Costly Contest
International
In a decent and sane world, we need not have cared who was elected President of the United…
A Small Light: Acts of Resistance in Afghanistan
Freethought around the world
In an Afghanistan once again ruled by the Taliban, there exist public executions, floggings, and lashings of alleged…
Israel’s war on Gaza is a war on the Palestinian people
International
'The war in Gaza represents—and is—a war on the Palestinian people.'
Death of a revolution: the Sudanese civil war
International
Zwan Mahmod reports on the catastrophe in Sudan and the end of its democratic dream.