Quebec’s French-style secularism: history and enduring value
Mathew Giagnorio argues that French-style secularism, epitomised by the province's controversial Bill 21, is fundamental to Quebecois identity.
‘The Greek mind was something special’: interview with Charles Freeman
The author of 'The Closing of the Western Mind' on ancient Greece, Christianity, and the narrowing of public discourse today.
Celebrating Eliza Flower: an unconventional woman
Frances Lynch rediscovers a radical English composer who had been neglected by history because she was female.
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.'
From the archive: ‘A House Divided’
Reflections by an earlier editor of the Freethinker on the relationship between humanists, secularists, freethinkers and rationalists – and why differences could be beneficial.
‘There is nothing easy or empty about humanity and reason’: in memoriam Jim Herrick (1944–2023)
Historian Bob Forder on the life of Jim Herrick, Freethinker editor from 1977-1981.