The Freethinker

Summing Up: Reflections on a Freethinking Life, by a Former ‘Freethinker’ Editor

In early 1944 I was born in London, a city I love. I spent much of my childhood…

The Berlin Pride attack should be a wake-up call for the left on Islam

Extremist Muslims decapitate heads; spineless liberals bury them.

Christopher Hitchens's Theory of Historical Progress: A Cruel Moral Calculus

Christopher Hitchens wrote an article in October 1992 for The Nation magazine in which he ran completely counter…

The need for a new Enlightenment

Christopher Hitchens on the need for a new Enlightenment.

When does a religious ideology become a political one? The case of Islam

Niko Alm argues that it is important for advocates of a liberal interpretation of Islam to draw a clear distinction between their views and thos…

The radicalisation of young Muslims in the UK: an ongoing problem?

Ever since the terrorist attacks on the US and Europe in the 2000s, an essential part of the…