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Free thinking in an age of extremes. Follow for independent journalism on ideas, culture, politics and science. Published since 1885
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Joined January 2009
🚨 Our Summer 2025 issue is out today! As people across the globe respond to uncertainty by embracing division and dogma, we explore how to hold on to our shared humanity. Let's take a look inside. 🧵 .
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How can young people find meaning - instead of despair - in the face of the climate crisis?. @domipalmer offers her thoughts in our special section on the search for meaning in the modern world:
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Why you might want to spend more time in your Default Mode Network
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We stand for free thinking in an age of extremes. Join us today
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Bangladesh’s student revolution unleashed chaos and sectarian violence. Can the coming elections renew its democracy?
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"Children must be at the core of humanist values. This means protecting their right to life, care and education. But it also means protecting their freedom of expression in all its forms, central to which is the right to play. It makes us fully human.".
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Elon Musk loves "The Hitchhiker’s Guide To The Galaxy". Yet it warns that anyone who seeks power is unfit to wield it
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In the latest issue of the magazine, @OhHiRalphJones meets the reluctant sceptic, @CosmicSkeptic .
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Why are some young people touting a return to traditional gender norms? . Sian Norris explores the issue in our special section on the search for meaning in the modern world:.
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“The world is full of countries with impeccable constitutions and courts to enforce them, which have been subverted perfectly legally by governments” - often with public support
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Elon Musk loves "The Hitchhiker's Guide". But does he understand it?
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Always plugged in? Here's why our brains need silence sometimes
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✨New online:. From atheist YouTuber to praying for divine revelation, what has happened to Alex O’Connor? .
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Ihsan Abdel Kouddous is one of the 20th century’s most popular writers of Arabic fiction. His bestselling novel "A Nose and Three Eyes" has been adapted for TV, radio and film - but was only recently published in English for the first time
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"Palestinian literature is going through a very exciting juncture . It’s like a dam is breaking in terms of the urgency of the voices, the variety of them, the experimentality of it"
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Are young people turning to religion and dogma in the face of a "crisis of meaning" in the west?. Six experts offer their perspectives:
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