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Israel: Toxic Church-State Relations and the Necessity of Secularism

When it was formed in 1948, Israel was declared a place for the world’s Jews to call home after almost two millennia of Jewish exile and persecution and the recent…

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5 min

Politics

Is France Charlie?

France has been a crucible of radical philosophy since the eighteenth century, and was the pre-eminent centre for the arts in the nineteenth and twentieth. It was France to which…

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8 min

Politics

Scouting Without Faith

I met my husband the summer before our junior year in high school. He had already achieved the rank of Eagle in The Boy Scouts of America (BSA). In those…

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4 min

Politics

We are little men serving great causes, but because the cause is great, something of that greatness falls upon us also.—Jawaharlal Nehru, 1946. The resurgence of muscular Hindu ethnonationalism under…

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7 min

Politics

How Religious Arguments Cheat in the Marketplace of Ideas

While the separation of church and state is a norm in many western societies, it is often inadequately upheld in the marketplace of ideas. Claims that the country is a…

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12 min

Psychology

Replacing Religion: How Secularism Has Failed and How It Can Succeed

Imagine a world in which individuals based their opinions on reason. Now, it is all but a certainty that human beings will at times fail to use logic in their…

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4 min

Politics

Australia’s Census Result Heralds a Secular Shift

The surge in “No religion” in the 2016 Census heralds a more secular Australia. With a rise from 22.3% in 2011 to 30.1% in 2016, “No Religion” has overtaken Catholicism to…

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5 min

Features

Has Europe Ceased to Exist?

It was on my 15th birthday in the Summer of 2005 in Northern Morocco that, by chance, I got my hands on a series of online articles about the European…

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4 min

Politics

Feeding the Two Far Rights: How Western Leaders Betray Liberal Values

The President of the United States and leader of the free world, Barack Obama, won’t even use the words ‘Islamic terrorism’ to talk about terrorism that is inspired by a…

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Secularism

Israel: Toxic Church-State Relations and the Necessity of Secularism

Is France Charlie?

Scouting Without Faith

On Being a Proud Indian

How Religious Arguments Cheat in the Marketplace of Ideas

Replacing Religion: How Secularism Has Failed and How It Can Succeed

Australia’s Census Result Heralds a Secular Shift

Has Europe Ceased to Exist?

Feeding the Two Far Rights: How Western Leaders Betray Liberal Values

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