Revolutionising Tom Paine
Recording his new radio play, Trevor Griffiths discovered the true revolutionary spirit of Tom Paine
Politics & Conflict
Torch bearers
Politics, religion and money may be wrestling to control the Olympics. But, argues Paul Sims, they’ll never be a match for the sheer drama
Editorial: Backwards and forwards
With the decline of the old-style Christian Right, are US evangelicals growing up?
Metropole by Ferenc Karinthy
Jonathan Derbyshire admires a dystopian classic
The Roads to Modernity: the British, French and American Enlightenments by Gertrude Himmelfarb
Stephen Howe asks why Gordon Brown is endorsing Neocon history
Memories of a promised land
Sixty years since its foundation Mike Marqusee and Eliane Glaser explore the state of Israel
Writing on the wall
Henri Lefebvre, the theoretician of the Paris uprising of 1968, saw that society’s most profound truths were etched on everyday life, discovers Daniel Miller
Drambuie in Damascus
Forget the booze cruise, Winston Fletcher finds that, with a little patience, you can get sozzled in Syria
Power to the pulpit
Religion has always been an election issue in America. But in the current campaign, argues James Crabtree, it’s not just the Republicans who are courting the faith vote
Diary: Man the hedgerows
The spirit of freedom lives on in parklife, says Ken Worpole