Image of the week: The Scopes Monkey Trial of 1925
July 2025 marks the hundredth anniversary of the infamous Scopes Monkey Trial, held in Dayton, Tennessee, which saw…
The Scopes Monkey Trial a century on: A global mess that nobody won
100 years on from the famous Scopes Monkey Trial, have we learned anything?
Obituary: Michael Laccohee Bush, 1938-2025
Those of our readers with an interest in freethought and radical history will be saddened to learn of…
The Iran-Israel war is not a war of liberation or a pursuit of justice
The war that began nearly two weeks ago—with Israel launching a series of bombardments on Iranian military installations…
Calling Pascal’s Bluff: Why His Wager Doesn’t Hold Up
Upping the Ante on Belief The French philosopher and mathematician Blaise Pascal (1623-1662) famously argued that belief in…
The Left-Liberal Tradition: Or, How Liberalism and Socialism Can be Allies
Introduction From the respect paid to property flow, as from a poisoned fountain, most of the evils and…