Maryam Namazie’s obscurity remains baffling. She ought to be a liberal poster girl.… Read the rest

News related to women’s rights from Iraq, Syria, Lebanon, Australia, Germany, more.… Read the rest

It’s sexist and elitist to think Harriet Miers is not ideal Supreme Court nominee.… Read the rest

Garry Wills has set out to retire the malarial old crank and to re-claim the younger man.… Read the rest

Critics worry about ‘demonising’ teenage parents.… Read the rest

Hizb ut-Tahrir has been recruiting under the name Stop Islamophobia at UCL and other institutions. … Read the rest

It’s not about the best or the most important public intellectuals, but the most famous ones.… Read the rest

Mumbo-Jumbo confronts hydra-headed threat to intellectual and scientific foundations.… Read the rest

A scientific theory is a machine that produces sensible explanations. … Read the rest

Newly named Jennie Lee College Students’ Association refuses to use Smith’s name in correspondence. … Read the rest

‘This isn’t an attack upon Adam Smith as a person.’ Whew!… Read the rest

Stoppard, Frayn, Hitchens, Redgrave C.… Read the rest

Increase in violence has made most of west Darfur off-limits to aid agencies. … Read the rest

Why don’t women in villages ‘endanger Islam’ by not wearing the hijab?… Read the rest

Secular government is the sine qua non of democracy, and theocracy is its natural opponent.… Read the rest

Religious thinking still permeates public life as the religious occupy positions of power.… Read the rest

Acting out of ‘religious conviction’ is not necessarily problem-free.… Read the rest

There’s a faction on the left whose sympathies lie with nostalgic fascists. … Read the rest

Shows Descartes to be more interesting than the closeted introvert in standard histories of philosophy.… Read the rest

Hitler offers a vision of revitalization and rebirth following the perceived decay of the liberal era.… Read the rest