Who are you calling a fanatic?
Rationalists should think twice about using a term which has, in its day, been used to condemn those who struggle for freedom and equality, says Alberto Toscano
Politics & Conflict
Of human greed: Laurie Taylor interviews David Harvey
A search for the reasons for the economic meltdown has prompted a turn back to Marx. Laurie Taylor meets the “dialectical materialist” geographer David Harvey who, 40 years into his…
Work ethics
When religious beliefs conflict with professional duties how do we decide what's fair? We asked Richard Rowson, the man who wrote the rules
Book review: Hamas by Beverley Milton-Edwards and Stephen Farrell & Hizbullah by Naim Qassem
When it comes to the two big Islamic political parties in the Middle East, should we fight or engage, asks Stephen Howe
On Tractor Street
From elegant modernism to Stalinist kitsch, the history of the Soviet Union’s journey is written all over its facades, finds Owen Hatherley
Film review: Four Lions
A film that laughs at suicide bombers but doesn't offend anyone? Chris Morris's big screen debut is the mouse that didn't roar, says Fred Rowson
Why Faisal Shahzad bombed Times Square
Blame Pakistan’s simmering anti-Americanism, says Pervez Hoodbhoy
Editorial: Just believe
It seems that anti-science is on the rise, but hopefully we've found the antidote
Cast away
How humanist are the three main parties? With the general election fast approaching, Paul Sims has been canvassing
Diary: The gradual anarchist
Stan Cohen remembers Colin Ward, the opposite of the cloak-and-dagger image of the anarchist