Whistleblower: working for Scientology
Paul Sims speaks to Marc Headley, the Scientology escapee now revealing what life is really like on the inside
Human Rights & Ethics
What happened to the women’s movement?
Elizabeth Wilson reviews two new books on how to revive feminism
Déjà vu, only worse
Michail Ryklin sits in on a Russian censorship trial
After the watershed
The American sociologist Manning Marable, who died in April 2011, was one of his country's most acute social analysts. In this interview from 2009 he talks to editor Caspar Melville…
Our own worst enemy
Self-censorship is handing victory to the extremists, says Sherry Jones
Diary: Backward step
Comedian Maureen Younger is unimpressed by the return of the rape joke
Kissing cousins
Is marrying close relations harmful? Charles Darwin, anxious about his own family inbreeding, applied his scientific rigour to find out the truth. Adam Kuper reveals all
Bless this tiger
Paul Sims visits a zoo with a difference
Shut up and listen
Newton Emerson has the real story behind Ireland’s new blasphemy law
Bless this tiger
Paul Sims visits a zoo with a difference