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Opinion Fri 18 Jul / 3

Perpetual progress – is it possible?

I ATTENDED the 82nd Conway Memorial Lecture, given on June 26, 2014, by Lisa Jardine, CBE, one of Jacob Bronowski’s four daughters, under the title “Things I Never Knew about my Father” – just as I had attended the 45th lecture of the same series, given sixty years ago by Bronowski himself, under the title […]

Reviews Mon 19 May / 1

The New Encyclopedia of Unbelief

THE fact that I contributed one small article to this massive work hardly debars me, I think, from reviewing it. Owing little to A Rationalist Encyclopedia (1948) by Joseph McCabe, the book under review is edited by Tom Flynn, who also edits the American journal Free Inquiry, and it is the direct, expanded and updated, […]