Are attacks on the ‘One True Church’ assaults on truth itself, asks JASON WALSH

It’s no surprise that Marx’s zombie bones won’t stay interred at Highgate Cemetery during a global recession but why is it always the worst parts of Marxism that stalk us today, asks TP D’INVILLIERS

Today’s proliferation of rights is having the effect of making us less free

Moral dilemma: what will replace the church as our compass? forth editor JASON WALSH and LENNY ANTONELLI in conversation with scientists and philosophers in the Irish Times

Jason Walsh asks if we’ve got it wrong about rights

forth editor Jason Walsh comments on the gay marriage debate in the Guardian

No church in two states: a secular Ireland would be good for religion – and the rest of us, says Brian McClinton

Terry Sanderson of Britain’s National Secular Society says arguments with religion aren’t polite – nor should they be

Today’s antagonistic ‘new atheism’ is boring, ignorant and ahistorical, says Jason Walsh