The Scottish Parliament elections, for all their drama, have not given us bold, imaginative politics. Scotland needs a new story, that breaks out of our comfortable myths and default positions. Scotland's future story will be about inter-dependence, a politics of a self-governing nation
Bardo and Ophelia at the triumphal arch: will the censored verses of Hamlet reveal to us who killed the poet? An extract from the new novel by Luis de Miranda
The Moral Landscape, by Sam Harris, is the latest assault by the "new atheists" on their favourite targets. But does it offer anything beyond classical utilitarianism?
Dostoevsky was in favor of military intervention in the Balkans, Tolstoy opposed to it. The arguments they put forward are surprisingly relevant to our own current wars.
There are multiple reasons for looking beyond Islam for our comprehension of this tumultuous region, to culture, to politics, and also to the history of capitalism, foreign interference and domination – its winners and losers. Our reviewer of Beyond Islam: A New Understanding of the Middle East, b
The ornate rituals in Westminster Abbey, and Donald Trump’s investigation of President Obama’s birth certificate have something in common that threatens modern power, and it isn’t very modern.
The leader debates in the run-up to the Scottish elections this week reveal a nation in crisis, stuck in a timewarp. For institutional Scotland to be challenged, we must reimagine our political community, nation and society
Don't write off Britain just because its component nations are embracing their identities.
Orthodox Jewish feminists may seem to outsiders to be a contradiction in terms. But as Cassandra Balchin discovers while talking with Israeli Orthodox Jewish feminist, Dr. Debbie Weissman, Jewish politics in Israel is anything but straightforward.
The Royal Wedding Reality Check invites you to express your genuine opinions on the event, whether you're a republican, a monarchist, or would never define yourself by either term
Cailean Gallagher reviews a collection of writing on the state of modern Scotland, edited by Gerry Hassan and Rosie Ilett
