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guardian articles

older posts

• Free speech: Hari and religion
• Sends the wrong message: On drugs and horses
• Unintended: intention and consequences
• Some sort of fascist: Kirsch on Zizek
• Saying nothing: Against the Orwell cult
• Credit crunch: Not a kind of biscuit
• Cluster bombs: Butterflies and breadbaskets
• Cult: What to call Scientology
• Extreme images: porn and thoughtcrime redux
• Misspeak: fault between brain and mouth
• Evidence-based medicine: clinical arguments
• Natural selection: the bear necessities
• Extreme interrogation: Hitchens and torture
• Reactive racism: Dawkins's odd bedfellow
• Any ethnicity: Martin Amis's call to racism
• Making: child porn and thoughtcrime
• Postmodernists: Zizek and Hari-kiri
• Infinitely more: 'Melanie' is choking
• Radical cleric: al-Sadr
• Slower to get it: Hitchens on women
• Some percentage: Hitchens and 'moral idiocy'
• Questioned by experts: Bush's names for torture
• Sustainable: ceasefires not worth the bother
• We call it life: global warming, friendly gases
• Decadence: Enlightenment cartoons
• Cynicism: Alastair Campbell and truth

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