Book review: The Dead Hand by David Hoffman
Michael Binyon revisits Cold War brinksmanship
Culture
Book review: Evolution and Belief by Robert Asher
Adam Rutherford tires of zombie arguments about creationism
Return of the moral minority
Fire-and-brimstone evangelists are usually associated with the US. But turn to the BBC at the weekend and you’ll see they’re enjoying a revival on these shores, says Francis Beckett
D’oh my God: faith in The Simpsons
This year, The Simpsons celebrate their 25th birthday and their 500th episode. Andrew Mueller pays homage to the family we can all believe in
Naked grace: the humanist vision of Eve Arnold
The great Magnum photographer Eve Arnold, who has died aged 99, had a uniquely tender eye, says Max Houghton
Anything is possible
Stephen Hawking’s childlike glee in overturning assumptions, especially his own, is what makes him such an iconic scientist, says his biographer Kitty Ferguson
Blots on a landscape
Martin Rowson on the genius of Ronald Searle’s line
The mind ironic
Matthew Adams remembers winning a £10 bet, and gaining a lifetime's inspiration from Christopher Hitchens
Still life
Laurie Taylor talks sadly to himself
Cartoon cowardice shames our press
In the aftermath of the firebombing of Charlie Hebdo, reprints of the magazine's Muhammad cover were conspicuous by their absence, notices Frederick Stjernfelt