The case for secularism (or, the church’s new clothes)
'Sometimes the invocation of ‘religious freedom’ is used as cover by the religious to make special claims and demand special platforms for themselves.'
Opposition to assisted dying is incompatible with humanism: a rejoinder to Kevin Yuill
I was interested to hear of the unusual case of Kevin Yuill, who wrote recently in this magazine…
Image of the week: Francisco Goya’s ‘The Sleep of Reason Produces Monsters’
Francisco Goya’s c. 1799 etching is usually regarded as an expression of Enlightenment principles. The imagination, untempered by…
White Christian Nationalism is rising in America. Separation of church and state is the antidote.
A judge citing the Bible and referring to God dozens of times in a court decision that limits…
Can the ‘New Theists’ save the West?
'[Jordan] Peterson is the most influential New Theist in the world, and he’s sympathetic to the cultural grievances of a brutal dictator who started the most devastating conflict in Europe since World War II.'
The need for a new Enlightenment
Christopher Hitchens on the need for a new Enlightenment.