Welcome back Uncle Joe
Russia’s ‘efficient manager’ is being written back into official history, reports Michael Binyon
Politics & Conflict
Champions of free speech?
Writing in New Humanist, Sherry Jones says Serbs have embraced the Jewel of Medina because they know the value of free expression. But could the reasons be more profane? asks…
Suffer the little children
The Catholic Church not only allowed priests to destroy hundreds of young lives, it blamed the victims and covered up the crimes for decades. For Laurie Taylor it’s personal
First As Tragedy, Then As Farce by Slavoj Žižek
Owen Hatherley finds Žižek actually making sense
The Arabs: A History by Eugene Rogan
Stephen Howe on a new history of the Arabs
Déjà vu, only worse
Michail Ryklin sits in on a Russian censorship trial
Seks, sinek ve videokasetleri: Harun Yahya’nın gizli hayatı
İslam dünyasında evrim karşıtlığının lideri, tarikat önderi, Dawkins’in düşmanı, sahte Mesih … Halil Arda Harun Yahya’nın gerçek yüzünü gösteriyor.
I shot the Pope
Keith Porteous Wood explains how he got the Vatican running for cover
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…
Iran’s green future
This week's protests are a sign of the uncontainable anger of the people says Kerem Oktem