Science
It’s Not God Who Needs Saving – It’s Us
Instead of embarking on the project of “saving God” by replacing him with the natural and human shaped world, it is perhaps time to acknowledge that it is we ourselves that need saving – just replacing God with Nature isn’t enough
Staving Off Despair: On the Use and Abuse of Pessimism for Life
The neuroscientist Raymond Tallis and the philosopher Roger Scruton discuss the human condition with the Editor of Standpoint, Daniel Johnson
Life, Synthia, But Not as we Know It
The latest work on synthetic cell creation by Craig Venter raises serious questions about bioethics
Evolution can be Religion’s Friend
Science and faith need not contradict each other because they concern different matters
The Ascent of Man
Are humans just the most complex of molecular machines or something qualitatively different?
How the West Took Leave of its Senses
Modern secular millennarians are embracing illiberal ideologies — and once again the Jews are in the firing line
Desperately Needing Susan
The Royal Institution has made a huge mistake by sacking its media-friendly director
A Brain of Two Halves
The Master and his Emissary — The Divided Brain and the Making of the Western World by Iain McGilchrist
Powerful Attraction
A new British-pioneered nuclear reactor can help cut our reliance on fossil fuels
Experts and Axioms
When politics has entered the scientific debate over climate change, how can we trust the experts?
Why Remoaners should back Boris
“Boris, ironically, now offers Remoaners the best chance of a soft Brexit, or at least a sensible one. And to those who want a second referendum—’the people’s vote’—there may even be a chance of that too.”
On the road
“In the summer of 1980, in the grip of some Kerouac-ish fantasy, I opted to hitch-hike from Laredo to New York”
Discovering the Great War of China
A third of a million Chinese labourers helped the Allies defeat the Kaiser, but their huge unsung contribution ended in betrayal