Category: World

In Conversation with Professor Jim Al-Khalili (Part 1)

March 1, 2017 | by | 0 Comments
Professor Jameel Sadik “Jim” Al-Khalili OBE is a British theoretical physicist, author and broadcaster. He is currently Professor of Theoretical Physics and Chair in the Public Engagement in Science at the University of Surrey. Scott Douglas Jacobsen: One longstanding phenomena in the dissemination of pseudoscience and non-science into the popular culture is the deliberate construction […] Read more

An Interview with Adalet Garmiany – Founder, Curator, and Chief Executive of ArtRole

February 28, 2017 | by | 0 Comments
Adalet R. Garmiany is a British & Kurdish Iraqi artist, curator and Chief Executive/Founder of ArtRole, an International based contemporary arts organisation developing international cultural exchanges with the Middle East. Adalet has been forging important cultural and artistic relationships between Iraq, Middle East, UK, across Europe, USA, and the rest of the world facilitating artistic dialogue, […] Read more

‘It’s just porn’: Coming to terms with a sexually corrosive culture

February 27, 2017 | by | 1 Comments
Robert Jensen is a professor in the School of Journalism at the University of Texas at Austin. This essay is drawn from his book The End of Patriarchy: Radical Feminism for Men, published in January 2017 by Spinifex Press. He can be reached at rjensen@austin.utexas.edu or through his website, http://robertwjensen.org/. Although the most compelling critiques […] Read more

Is Western Civilisation Worth Saving?

February 14, 2017 | by | 1 Comments
Perhaps the defining feature of political discourse in the 21st century is the spectre of the decline and possible pending fall of Western civilisation. Whether it be the purported threat of Islamisation by a million migrants, the stirring of the red dragon, the supposed erosion of Judeo-Christian values, the proliferation of nihilistic consumerism, or the […] Read more

Why We Should Consider Giving Everyone Free Money

February 2, 2017 | by | 0 Comments
How would it sound if your government paid everyone in your country a basic income every month, on top of their salary, to spend in any way they like, without any criteria, conditions or requirements? This is the very promising idea of Universal Basic Income (UBI), which is being tested by various countries at the […] Read more

Interview with Andrew Copson

February 1, 2017 | by | 0 Comments
Andrew Copson is Chief Executive of the British Humanist Association (BHA), a position he has held since January 2010, and former Director of Education and Public Affairs at the BHA from 2005 to 2010. In 2015, Andrew Copson was elected President of the International Humanist and Ethical Union, the global umbrella body for atheist, Humanist, sceptic and secularist […] Read more

Interview with Scott Blair

January 29, 2017 | by | 0 Comments
Scott Douglas Jacobsen: What is your family and personal story – culture, education, and geography? I had a classic American beginning. My father was a General Motors Engineer; my mother was a nurse (until starting a family – this was the late fifties). We were a TV-like family of five in an all-white community in […] Read more