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.'
Bring on the British republic – Graham Smith’s ‘Abolish the Monarchy’, reviewed
'Our monarchs seem to have spent more time secretly lobbying for tax exemptions than standing up for liberty.'
‘The real beauty comes from contemplating the universe’: humanism with Sarah Bakewell
The author of ‘Humanly Possible: Seven Hundred Years of Humanist Freethinking, Enquiry and Hope' speaks to the Freethinker.
Cancel culture and religious intolerance: ‘Falsely Accused of Islamophobia’, by Steven Greer
'Religious fanatics are past masters of cancel culture,' argues Daniel Sharp, reviewing Greer's book.
Can art be independent of politics?
Review of Jed Perl's 'Authority and Freedom: A Defense of the Arts'.
The perils of dropping a book
On the Wakefield Koran-scuffing case, and why de facto blasphemy laws must continue to be resisted.