‘while encouraging students to keep an open mind and explore alternatives to evolution, it offers no scientific alternative’… Read the rest

‘We find that the secular purposes claimed by the board amount to a pretext for the board’s real purpose.’… Read the rest

What with ‘faith’ schools, vicars patrolling supermarkets, secularists banned from Thought for Day.… Read the rest

It’s only feeble ideas that need all this protection.… Read the rest

The great man lived into his 80s largely thanks to knowing just when to grab his luggage.… Read the rest

David Luban on loading the dice, Jeremy Waldron on drawing the line, Michael Walzer on dirty hands.… Read the rest

With U.S. lawmakers banning abuse, where does Liberal stand, asks Haroon Siddiqui.… Read the rest

And labels get confused: left, right, realist, internationalist, moral idealist, neoconservative…… Read the rest

‘He had received many warning letters from the Taliban to stop teaching, but he continued.’… Read the rest

Fight back.… Read the rest

God heads a creaking pantheon of authority figures, from political magi to celebrity hairdressers.… Read the rest

‘Scruffy Irish pop stars and smart chefs are the new moral arbitors.’… Read the rest

Why should theocrats abroad listen when theocrats in US appear to be running the place?… Read the rest

‘You can’t put one of the world’s best living novelists on trial and say this is just growing pains.’… Read the rest

When post-modernist fashions, with fuzzy terminologies and neo-colonial potentialities, have gone. … Read the rest

The gods of the state also continue to exact their sacrifices.… Read the rest

Islamic College Amsterdam will continue to require woman teachers to cover heads.… Read the rest

Organizers of ‘Beware: Religion!’ exhibition were found guilty of arousing religious hatred.… Read the rest

Face uphill battle.… Read the rest

‘Identity labels have nothing to do with how anyone actually experiences life.’… Read the rest