Excerpt from a memoir of life in an Israeli Kibbutz with discussion of the author’s growing disillusionment with Labour Zionism. “What I did, however, come quite quickly to understand if not openly acknowledge was just how limited the kibbutz and its members really were. The mere fact of collective self-government, or egalitarian distribution of consumer durables, does not make you either more sophisticated or more tolerant of others. Indeed, to the extent that it contributes to an extraordinary smugness of self-regard, it actually reinforces the worst kind of ethnic solipsism.”

An in-depth and surprisingly personal interview of Richard Dawkins by Riz Khan.

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Russell Blackford stands up for the “new atheism”. Blackford explains why in his view the resurgence in atheist literature and the movement in general, are gaining traction and why open criticism of religion should not remain taboo.

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