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What kind of God is it who's upset by a cartoon in Da

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The moment you say that any idea system is sacred, whether it’s a religious belief system or a secular ideology, the moment you declare a set of ideas...more

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Religion, a mediaeval form of unreason, when combined with modern weaponry becomes a real threat to our freedoms. This religious totalitarianism has c...more

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Many of us persons of the tinted persuasion care about human rights and artistic freedom too.

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...they all were, in the grip of a huge fantasy: the idea that men would not be judged by who they once were and what they had once done, if they only...more

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All liberty required was that the space for discourse itself be protected. Liberty lay in the argument itself, not the resolution of that argument, in...more

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The alphabet is where all our secrets begin.

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But great tragedy is universal