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A turning point for moderate Islam
In an age of stark ideological cleavages, Muslims are living through a battle of ideas over the meaning of religion in the modern world
Fitzroy Morrissey

Editor’s Picks

Thousands of new French windfarms — but no reduction in carbon emissions
‘Wind and solar power make it impossible for France to close down its remaining fossil fuel power stations’
John Laurenson

Dread, time and the pandemic
Søren Kierkegaard’s reflections on worry are useful reading for those in lockdown
John Lippitt

Staking claims on thin ice: the new Silk Road
Shipping routes are opening up in the Arctic due to climate change. This is a development fraught with environmental and geopolitical risk
Vanora Bennett

Books

Minds of their own
Contagious curiosity about the way consciousness works
Nigel Warburton

Testing positivism
"The Murder of Professor Schlick" brilliantly illuminates an ambitious movement in philosophy
Clare Clark
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Counterpoints

Letters: Parents first, Ancient and modern, Seeing red
Standpoint Magazine

Tristram Shandy and the consolations of comedy
Standpoint Magazine

Central American exceptionalism: Costa Rica faces la pandemia
Mark Gullick

Nicola Sturgeon’s coronavirus victory
Alex Bell

A mental balm
Jo Wickham

Letters: Priceless plans; Marxist pedagogy; Tibet and China; The name game
Standpoint Magazine
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Civilisation

The year of viewing dangerously
Television in 2020 has been prescient, poignant and palliative
Phil Harrison

Minds of their own
Contagious curiosity about the way consciousness works
Nigel Warburton

A lost paradise of purity
Terror and transcendence in the late masterpieces of Schubert
Jonathan Gaisman

Testing positivism
"The Murder of Professor Schlick" brilliantly illuminates an ambitious movement in philosophy
Clare Clark
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