21 April 2008
The pope's US visit: Media, White House, Congress embrace spokesman for religious obscurantism

21 March 2006
Religion and science: a reply to a right-wing attack on philosopher Daniel Dennett

16 February 2006
Anti-Muslim cartoons published in Australia

15 February 2006
In their own words: the politics behind the anti-Muslim cartoons

Letters on the anti-Muslim cartoons

10 February 2006
Bush condemns protests against anti-Muslim cartoons

Denmark and Jyllands-Posten: The background to a provocation

9 February 2006
An account of the attack on science in the US
The Republican War on Science by Chris Mooney

8 February 2006
Death toll mounts in worldwide protests against anti-Muslim cartoons

22 April 2005
Pope Benedict XVI's political resume: theocracy and social reaction

21 April 2005
From "grand inquisitor" to pope: Benedict XVI to head crusade vs. secularism, democracy

13 April 2005
Letters on the death of Pope John Paul II

11 April 2005
Cardinal disgraced in sex-abuse scandal plays prominent role in papal funeral rites

6 April 2005
Pope John Paul II: a political obituary

The US media and the pope--an assault on the separation of church and state

5 April 2002
Letters on "Why the epidemic of sexual abuse in the Catholic Church?"

29 March 2002
Why the epidemic of sexual abuse in the Catholic Church?

19 September 2000
Vatican beatifies anti-Semitic Pope

1 September 2000
The US elections: Lieberman's holy war against the Bill of Rights

15 August 2000
The human genome project: science, society and superstition

3 August 2000
Fundamentalist anti-evolution candidates defeated in Kansas state election

22 March 2000
The tawdry politics of Tibetan Buddhism
The flight of the Karmapa Lama from Tibet

1 March 2000
Galileo's Daughter: An important contribution to the history of science

16 February 2000
A man of insight and courage
Giordano Bruno, philosopher and scientist, burnt at the stake 400 years ago

3 August 1999
The Falun Gong crackdown: a crisis in China's corridors of power

4 November 1998
The Fifth Miracle: The Search for
the Origins of Life by Paul Davies:
Scientific controversies and a
touch of mysticism

25 August 1998
Science v. Religion: The history and significance of the 1925 Scopes trial

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