The new leaders of Britain's government would like to be one-nation Tories, the times may not let them.
Is there a difference between secularity and secularism? Are they both essentially Christian, or essentially religious concepts? An interview with the arabist and medievalist, Rémi Brague
Adam Smith examines the unanswered questions in Michele Monni's defence of secularism in the wake of the Pope's visit to the UK.
An Indian court’s ruling on the Hindu-Muslim dispute over the sacred site of Ayodhya sheds light on the relationship between two forms of rationality in India, says Deep K Datta-Ray.
Amartya Sen's latest book demands we rethink our approach to questions of justice, argues Charles Barclay Roger.
Reflecting on a recent visit to the Centre for Alternative Technology (CAT) and his life as an eco-activist, Charlie Hill argues that radical ecology needs to reach out to a new audience.
In an age when wealth and power present a more diffuse and benign face to the world, the soft authority of knowledge is ever more important as a force for social change. The politics of knowledge – how ideas are created, used and disseminated – represents a key issue for the social change communit
Markha Valenta opens up a new openDemocracy space - Inter Alia - for the discussion of politics, religion and culture
The Cycling4Gaza challenge offers concerned people a unique opportunity to raise both money and awareness for those suffering in Gaza.
The bureaucratic state of the mid-20th century ran its useful course, and the attempt to return to a mythical nineteenth century market state failed us. Sociologist Zygmunt Bauman helps us to think our way beyond both
Stalin’s collectivization of agriculture in the USSR in the 1930s led to famine, repression and widespread family tragedy. Oleg Pavlov visited a school in the capital of Tartarstan to find out how this period is being taught now
What is a climate-change novel, and what makes a good one? Andrew Dobson takes time from his day job as professor of politics to read the existing literature and emerge with suggestions about how to do it better.
