Why Homer Simpson is our greatest philosopher
Someone like Homer is never realistic in the way a film or novel character is. But he is a real[…]
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Can a religion survive being stripped of superstition?
There is no escaping the fact that Buddhism is, as the philosopher Owen Flanagan put it, full of “superstitious nonsense”[…]
ReadThere’s a dark side to this piety about ‘going local’
A decade ago, “This is a local shop for local people” was the catchphrase of a parochial, psychotic couple in[…]
ReadWarnock on religion
In the latest microphilosophy podcast I talk to Mary Warnock about her latest book, Dishonest to God: On Keeping Religion out of Politics. The interview was recorded live at the Arnolfini Centre as part of the Bristol Festival of Ideas.
ReadAtheism in America
As I found out when I travelled across the US last year, atheists live in isolation and secrecy all over the country. In a nation that celebrates freedom of religion like no other, freedom not to be religious at all can be as hard to exercise as the right to swim the Atlantic.
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