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An idiosyncratic review of 2024

Against the 'New Theism': my speech at the National Secular Society's 2024 conference

By the Known Rules of Ancient Liberty: A Review of Masha Karp’s “George Orwell and Russia”

On Literary Science and the Bounds of Knowledge

The Triumph of Eros Over Thanatos: The Imperishable Beauty of “Holding the Man”

‘F*** it, think freely!’ Interview with Brian Cox (Den Discussion #14)

Escaping Ideology: my conversation with Jonathan Church for Merion West's podcast

Defending Liberalism: An Interview with Freethinker

‘Project 2025 is about accelerating the demise of a functioning democracy’: interview with US Representative Jared Huffman

Donald Trump, political violence, and the future of America

Nihilism in Bo'ness (audio version)

Nihilism in Bo'ness

Senile vs Insane (audio version)

Senile vs Insane

A conversation with John Richards (Den Discussion #12)

A reading list against the ‘New Theism’ (and an offer to debate)

'The magnitude of his folly'

‘Nature is super enough, thank you very much!’: interview with Frank Turner (Den Discussion #11)

A reading from Salman Rushdie's 'Knife' (plus my review of the book)

Goodbye, Granny Ina (audio version)

Goodbye, Granny Ina

Consciousness, free will and meaning in a Darwinian universe: interview with Daniel C. Dennett (Den Discussion #10)

(Audio version) Becoming editor of the 'Freethinker'

Becoming editor of the 'Freethinker'

Beware the Hate Monster! (Audio version)

Beware the Hate Monster!

Napoleon the Great #2 (another reading from Andrew Roberts's biography)

Napoleon the Great (a reading from Andrew Roberts's biography)

Jake and animal suffering (audio version)

Jake and animal suffering

Thank you

Against the 'New Theism'

Burns Night Redux

The allegedly Christian values of the West: Filippino Lippi’s ‘Triumph of St Thomas Aquinas over the Heretics’

'Back to Earth': Reading from Olaf Stapledon's 'Star Maker' (1937)

Thomas Paine’s radical commitment to free speech: A tradition worth following

Consciousness, free will and meaning in a Darwinian universe: interview with Daniel C. Dennett (Den Discussion #10)