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LIBERALISM AND AUTHORITY (on-sale July 1st)
Iranian liberalism and the war for the public sphere
Special dispatches from Turkmenistan and Belarus
Peter Tatchell on a new Ugandan tyranny
Sarah Churchwell explores ‘liberal’ Hollywood
A reappraisal of John Stuart Mill
Terry Eagleton: ‘On Reflection’
New music from Claudia Molitor
New poetry by David Constantine and John Fuller

A Fighting Faith

By Danny Postel

As an authority against authoritarianism, liberalism is undergoing a renaissance in Iran, and reflecting back to the West its radical roots, argues Danny Postel. [more]

Memory

Review by Hugh Tancred

How is memory of a fact related to memory of a skill, or to memory of a person? Is public memory derived from private thought, or is it, mysteriously, the other way round? [more]

Blasting the Past

By Xiaolu Guo

The ‘demolition’ of Old Beijing is not simply a form of mindless cultural violence. It has become a vital tool in the ‘progressive’ and ‘civilising’ project sweeping the country. [more]

Louise Whiteley

Orwell in the Scanner

A marker of civilised society -- and one subtly eroded by our increasing ability to identify genetic and neural predispositions -- is our freedom to choose whether to translate our thoughts
into actions. [more]

 Peter Tatchell

Uganda’s new tyranny

President Museveni’s critics say his régime has become a constitutional dictatorship, with a rubber-stamp parliament, powerless judiciary, censored media and heavily-militarised civil institutions. [more]

Godless: The Church of Liberalism

Review by Christopher Hitchens

I have the distinct feeling that people do not buy Coulter's creed-screeds and speed-reads in order to enhance their knowledge of history or their command of syllogism. [more]

On Myth

By Marina Warner

The word ‘myth’ is usually used to evoke a dead religion (the Greeks’ Olympians, the Norse pantheon) but it is also applied rather heedlessly to the sacred stories of peoples who are still unconsciously counted as primitive, and unadulteratedly ancient. [more]

Not a gentle kind
of Zen

By Ed Smith

I had approached Zidane – a 21st Century Portrait with some trepidation, as I didn’t expect to be much bothered about a real-time replay of the match between Real Madrid and Villarreal on 23rd April 2005. How wrong I was. [more]

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