Think of a mystery musical instrument. If a physicist is told the loudness of the sound it makes at every possible frequency, ...

Speculative Whiteness: Science Fiction and the Alt-Right (University of Minnesota Press) by Jordan S. Carroll Right-wingers are usually seen as political advocates for the past, associated with ...

In every chapter we find the author in a different bothy (11 in Scotland, one in Wales), usually escaping some undetailed ...

From atheist YouTuber to praying for divine revelation, what has happened to Alex O’Connor?

“Truth’s a menace, science is a public danger,” says Mustapha Mond, the “Controller” in Aldous Huxley’s iconic dystopian novel Brave New World. “That’s why we so carefully limit the scope of its ...

But Trump likes people who like him, and these people liked him. By the fall of 2015, White-Cain was arranging meetings between the would-be president and charismatic religious leaders. These were ...

Hillsong United perform in California. Credit: Justin Higuchi /CC 2.0 via Wikimedia Commons Cool Christianity: Hillsong and the Fashioning of Cosmopolitan Identities (Oxford University Press) by ...

Michaela Community School prides itself on its approach to discipline. At this free school in Wembley, north-west London, children walk the corridors in silence and retrieve books from their bags ...

“The Crucifixion” (c. 1340) by Paolo Veneziano. Credit: Alamy Heresy: Jesus Christ and the Other Sons of God (Picador) by Catherine Nixey Many of us suffer from the cognitive bias known as the “just ...

Technology is enabling us to retreat from the outside world. But we should resist the urge – for ourselves and for each other Patrons outside a busy pub in the Yorkshire Dales. Credit: Alamy There ...

The majority of British people are in favour of the death penalty in extreme cases. But its use would fundamentally alter our society “Winter’s Gibbet” in Northumberland marks the site of a murder and ...

Religious officials have accompanied British soldiers into war for centuries, offering moral and spiritual support to humans in the most inhumane situations. But it was only at the end of last year ...