The New Atheists thought they stood for truth and reason – but did they help usher in an age of conspiracist thinking and prejudice? Giovanni Tiso explores.
Many pundits connect Brexit to imperial nostalgia – but, writes Charlotte Lydia Riley, its relationship with national identity is complex.
New battles in an ancient city
How a mix of secular nationalists and religious zealots have turned Jerusalem’s Temple Mount into a site of conflict. Shira Rubin reports from Israel.
The complex picture of religion and atheism today
What people in Britain believe – or don’t – has changed dramatically in recent years. The results are likely to surprise you, as Jeremy Rodell explains.
The social industry was invented to capture social life and turn it to profit – and, as Richard Seymour warns, we are all slaving away as its unpaid “digital serfs”.
Millicent Fawcett is now honoured in Westminster, writes Vron Ware, but what about the women who saw their fight as part of a wider struggle?
The rise of Brazil’s Santo Daime religion
Ayahuasca and shamanic tourism were already controversial in Brazil, and now face an uncertain future under Bolsonaro. Lucinda Elliott reports.
Turning the phage: a new front in the war on antibiotic resistance
Long overlooked in the West, could bacteriophages be the secret weapon in tackling our growing resistance to antibiotics? Peter Forbes explores.
The resurgence of nationalist politics around the world is threatening to turn into something far worse. Peter Salmon looks at the work of the French philosopher Étienne Balibar.
Madeline Roache reports on the conflict in eastern Ukraine, which has provoked a split in the Russian Orthodox church, with up to 30 million followers at stake.
