More than any other rite of passage, death separates the devout from the damned. So what can a secular funeral offer? Sally Feldman, a humanist celebrant, explores.
2. Tim Minchin: “It just happens that I’m right”
In the last few years, Tim Minchin has risen from cult London-based comic singer-songwriter to famous LA-based actor/composer/director/singer-songwriter. Now he's working on major commercial films and musicals - but, as he tells Ariane Sherine, he's also a man with a mission.
3. What does it mean to remember the Holocaust?
The row over a new memorial on Budapest prompts a personal reflection from Toby Lichtig about history, victimhood, remembering the past, and moving on.
Do modern liberal values have their origins in religious tradition? In this essay, Jonathan Rée reviews Larry Siedentop's new book on the origins of liberalism.
South Africa’s deeply unequal society has led to the rise of the “occult economy”: quack cures sold by mystics to poor urban workers. Sarah Emily Duff reports from Johannesburg.
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