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Assistant editor Daniel James Sharp caught up with the anti-monarchy activist Graham Smith at the National Secular Society's 2023 Members' Day.
‘The Greek mind was something special’: interview with Charles Freeman
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The author of 'The Closing of the Western Mind' on ancient Greece, Christianity, and the narrowing of public discourse today.
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How G.W. Foote's early tactics of courting notoriety in the Freethinker may have helped to increase its circulation and to support the freethought movement.
Christopher Hitchens and the long afterlife of Thomas Paine
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Daniel Sharp examines the influence of Thomas Paine on Christopher Hitchens, and their many points of resemblance.
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The letter by Albert E. Standley that led to the formation of Republic, first published in the Freethinker, December 1982.
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