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29 January 2010

Wrong about rights

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

20 January 2010

forth elsewhere: Post-Catholic mortality in Ireland

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

11 December 2009

Human rights? Gay rights? Women’s rights? Children’s rights? Wrong!

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

08 December 2009

forth elsewhere: Kick the state out of our bedrooms

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

12 November 2009

Let’s secularise all of Ireland

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

11 November 2009

New atheists are not so new

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

10 November 2009

New atheists, old bottles

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