Probably? Not!
Atheists shouldn’t be afraid to be certain, says Michael Neumann
Ideas
The Monstrosity of Christ: Paradox or Dialectic? by Slavoj Žižek and John Milbank
Nina Power tires of Slavoj Žižek and his monstrous essays
Shadow boxing
Cultural relativism and Western chauvinism share one basic principle, claims Kenan Malik: a loss of faith in universal values
Freedom’s foghorn
Happy Birthday Tom Paine: Jan 29. Here's something we prepared earlier...Roger Davidson marks the 200th anniversary of the passing of Tom Paine, an inspirational ego
The art of phwoar
Free websites like Pornhub mean that explicit sex films are only a click away. But are they any good? Michael Bywater offers a classical critique
Why Socrates Died by Robin Waterfield
Jenny Bunker never quite learns what really killed Socrates
Moral dilemmas
Do we have the right to judge others? Steven Lukes reviews the evidence
No appeasement
If liberal Britain is ailing we have only ourselves to blame, says Nick Cohen
Blog standard
How well does online punditry translate on the printed page? Stephen Howe finds out
Book Review: Questions of Truth: God, Science and Belief by John Polkinghorne and Nicholas Beale
AC Grayling rips into the latest attempt to bridge the God-science gap