India may have the best of modern technology and a powerful economy, but it is deeply religious.
The German pastor and theologian Dietrich Bonhoeffer was charismatic, courageous and controversial
There is hope for Africa, writes a British journalist, perhaps more hope than for more developed countries.
A defence of rationality and common sense from an Australian mathematician is a must-read as an antidote to post-modernist scepticism.
Unlike the proprietor of Rick's Café Américain in Casablanca, some of his compatriots stayed in Paris.
After 400 pages we still don’t know whether Sarah Palin is a really rogue element in politics or merely aiming for a future in the GOP.
Sarah Palin's book An American Life is suprisingly moving and well worth the read.
Australian academics and activists collaborate in a new book to challenge the sexualisation of girls.
If the chimpanzee genome is 98.6% human, does that mean that chimps deserve 98.6% of human rights?
Who is responsible for China's infamous one-child policy? Surprisingly, it is not 60 years of Communist rule.
A personal journey into how the world's poorest people are educating themselves.
Peter Singer's latest cause is lifting billions out of poverty.
Everyone is in favour of civilization, but exactly what is it? A British intellectual has taken up the challenge of defining a very slippery concept.
A new edition of Vera Brittain’s witness to a generation’s experience of war invites rediscovery of this classic.
Charles Darwin was a kind and polite man, but his take on evolution led to social Darwinism and the Nazis.
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