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• Editorial: Backwards and forwards

  With the decline of the old-style Christian Right, are US evangelicals growing up?

• Metropole by Ferenc Karinthy

  Jonathan Derbyshire admires a dystopian classic

• The Roads to Modernity: the British, French and American Enlightenments by Gertrude Himmelfarb

  Stephen Howe asks why Gordon Brown is endorsing Neocon history

• Memories of a promised land

  Sixty years since its foundation Mike Marqusee and Eliane Glaser explore the state of Israel

• Writing on the wall

  Henri Lefebvre, the theoretician of the Paris uprising of 1968, saw that society’s most profound truths were etched on everyday life, discovers Daniel Miller

• Drambuie in Damascus

  Forget the booze cruise, Winston Fletcher finds that, with a little patience, you can get sozzled in Syria

• Power to the pulpit

  Religion has always been an election issue in America. But in the current campaign, argues James Crabtree, it’s not just the Republicans who are courting the faith vote

• Diary: Man the hedgerows

  The spirit of freedom lives on in parklife, says Ken Worpole

• Editorial: Toxic mix

  From Russia to India, France to Iran, come particular examples of a general rule – religion and politics are a toxic mix

• Spongers

  Why shouldn’t people have to earn the right to be housed? Julian Baggini gets back to basics