The hijab is the wrong symbol to represent women
Khadija Khan on why a hijab-clad statue in Birmingham is a faux pas, celebrating a symbol of oppression against women rather than their freedom and dignity.
‘When the chips are down, the philosophers turn out to have been bluffing’
Emma Park speaks to Alex Byrne, professor of philosophy at MIT and author of 'Trouble with Gender', about what a philosopher can bring to the trans debate, and why some philosophers have shrunk from 'questioning orthodoxy'.
The power of outrage
Tehreem Azeem argues that the Pakistani media's emotive coverage of the recent Quran-burning in Sweden is a disproportionate reaction.
Image of the week: a double vanishing act
From the Jesus and Mo series. First published 14th January 2015. Enjoying the Freethinker? Subscribe to our free…
Milton’s ‘Areopagitica’: liberty and licensing
'Disobedience may have been disastrous for Satan...but it was very much on the table for the freethinker in seventeenth-century England.'
Image of the week: Redacted
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