Forever Free is a reminder of the immense, lasting cost of squandered opportunity. … Read the rest

Review of a historian’s take on an anthropologist’s take on an anthropologist.… Read the rest

Our mission should be to rid our students of automatic or blinkered thinking.… Read the rest

K Street cash subsidizes faith-based politics; abolition of inheritance tax becomes a sacrament.… Read the rest

‘A few bouts of “astrologese” and you’re ready to knock the wizard’s cap off the author’s head.’… Read the rest

‘Religion and education should not be joined.’… Read the rest

Half a million babies are aborted every year because they are girls, says Lancet study.… Read the rest

10 million missing females, and the absolute number is likely to grow in the future.… Read the rest

Heidegger’s work has ‘a dangerous power that I try to inoculate myself against and always fail.’… Read the rest

See the Colorado preacher lose his boyish charm.… Read the rest

‘Disconnected from political engagement, reading lacks urgency.’ It does?… Read the rest

Brain-imaging study finds that the higher the level of uncertainty, the more instinct, not logic, will rule.… Read the rest

How easy is it for Galloway’s constituents to contact him? Vikram Dodd finds out.… Read the rest

Unlike scientists, the general public does not understand that belief takes no part in scientific thinking.… Read the rest

Design is not a real alternative to chance at all because it raises an even bigger problem than it solves.… Read the rest

‘You can attack their politics or their football team, but not their faith.’… Read the rest

‘The cartoons did nothing that transcends the cultural norms of secular Denmark.’… Read the rest

Hairdressers act as counsellors and social workers. Do they? Uh oh.… Read the rest

Americans are falling increasingly into the arms of Jesus – and Europe could go the same way.… Read the rest

Well suited to the person who has some interest in philosophy but is too lazy to keep up. … Read the rest