I have, as a way of introducing my work, pulled together 99 of the most relevant essays and reviews published on Pandaemonium over the past few years. They cover the broad themes of my writing and hopefully illuminate my approach. If 99 sounds too many, I have also trimmed that list to create an even more introductory collection of 21 essays that I think best sets out my arguments and ideas. The longer list is chronologically arranged, the shorter collection randomly ordered. I will no doubt rework both lists from time to time, adding new material, discarding old. I hope they prove useful.
A LIST OF 21…
What is wrong with multiculturalism?, Part 1 and Part 2, 4 & 7 June 2012
Who needs God? 6 February 2012
Populism: What, why, how? 5 November 2014
In defence of diversity, 25 November 2013
Why hate speech should not be banned, 19 April 2012
Without a moral safety net, 12 May 2014
Notes on religious freedom, 17 June 2012
The forgotten roots of the First World War, 15 May 2014
The Enlightenment and the Death of God, 10 June 2014
Test tube truths, 14 April 2011
Abortion, infanticide, humanity, free speech, 7 March 2012
When does criticism of Islam become Islamophobia?, 14 November 2013
The wrong solution to the wrong problem, 1 December 2012
Why both sides are wrong in the race debate, 4 March 2012
A policy without conscience, 9 October 2013
The pleasures of pluralism, the pain of offence, 17 June 2013
The many roots of Christian Europe, 2 March 2014
Radical Islam and the rage against modernity, 28 January 2014
Blank slates and straw dogs, 25 July 2013
To cast the Enlightenment in a radical light, 20 June 2013
Je suis Charlie? It’s a bit late, 8 January 2014
…AND ONE OF 99
1 On Stoicism, free will and fate, 5 April 2011
2 Against the burqa ban, 11 April 2011
3 Test tube truths, 14 April 2011
4 Gossip, privacy and censorship, 13 May 2011
5 How I became gobby and dissing, 26 May 2011
6 The science of seeing what you want to see, 12 June 2011
7 Arts for whose sake?, 5 July 2011
8 Moral poverty and the riots, 12 August 2011
9 Myths and realities of 9/11, 11 September 2011
10 Five books on morality without God, 23 September 2011
11 Morality and the left, 4 October 2011
12 Stem cell research is moral. It’s the critics who are morally repugnant, 22 October 2011
13 Politics without democracy. Democracy without politics, 11 November 2011
14 Antigone across the ages, 27 December 2011
15 Hegel and Rousseau, freedom and history, 8 January 2012
16 Beyond the sacred, 19 January 2012
17 To name the unnameable, 22 January 2012
18 Who needs God?, 6 February 2012
19 Why both sides are wrong in the race debate, 4 March 2012
20 Abortion, infanticide, humanity, free speech, 7 March 2012
21 Sartre and the anguish of freedom, 25 March 2012
22 Here to stay, here to fight, 28 March 2012
23 From streetfighters to bookburners, 30 March 2012
24 Politics, morality and the Haitian revolution, 11 April 2012
25 CLR James, Frantz Fanon and the meaning of liberation, 16 April 2012
26 Why hate speech should not be banned, 19 April 2012
27 Anders Breivik and the culture of delusion, 23 April 2012
28 ‘Conflicting credos, but the same vision of the world’, 21 May 2012
29 Notes on religious freedom, 17 June 2012
30 What is wrong with multiculturalism? [part 1] and part 2, 4/7 June 2012
31 On the poetry of the Taliban, 21 June 2012
32 MacIntyre, Enlightenment and tradition, 15 August 2012
33 On the second coming of religion, 4 October 2012
34 Reaching for a moral high ground long since crowded, 11 November 2012
35 The wrong solution to the wrong problem, 1 December 2012
36 Ancient race wars and modern race science, 18 December 2012
37 On the Enlightenment’s ‘race problem’, 13 February 2013
38 On the making of the idea of race, 17 February 2013
39 Darkness in anthropology, 4 March 2013
40 The facts, the myths and the framing of immigration, 30 March 2013
41 A debate on ‘Who speaks for me?’, 7 April 2013
42 Dissecting John Gray’s anatomy, 11 April 2013
43 Immigration and loss, 26 April 2013
44 The pleasures of pluralism, the pain of offence, 17 June 2013
45 To cast the Enlightenment in a radical light, 20 June 2013
46 Stories plucked from the worlds in-between, 3 July 2013
47 Blank slates and straw dogs, 25 July 2013
48 The nature of sex, 29 July 2013
49 Tyranny is always tyranny, whoever may be the target, 1 August 2013
50 Syria: Morality and reality, 4 September 2013
51 The war of the cynics, 15 September 2013
52 Beyond the veil, 22 September 2013
53 A policy without conscience, 9 October 2013
54 Migration and morality: A review of Paul Collier’s Exodus, 5 October 2013
55 The not-so-secret history of capitalism, 20 October 2013
56 When does criticism of Islam become Islamophobia?, 14 November 2013
57 Buddhist pogroms and religious conflicts, 21 November 2013
58 In defence of diversity, 25 November 2013
59 Human rights and animal rights, 5 December 2013
60 The haunting grace of Marilynne Robinson, 21 December 2013
61 Dieudonné: The clown of the anti-age, 15 January 2014
62 Facing religion’s dilemma, 22 January 2014,
63 Christianity and liberalism: A review of Larry’s Siendentop’s Inventing the Individual, 25 January 2014,
64 On the importance of the right to offend, 29 January 2014
65 Angels and monsters, myths and monsters, 1 February 2014
66 In the shadow of the fatwa, 14 February 2014
67 The many roots of Christian Europe, 2 March 2014
68 The human heart of sacred art, 5 March 2014
69 The many shades of Ukraine, 12 March 2014
70 Conforming, not transforming, 9 April 2014
71 The unravelling of morality, 29 April 2014
72 Without a moral safety net, 12 May 2014
73 The forgotten roots of the First World War, 15 May 2014
74 Europe’s new faultline, 18 May 2014
75 The Enlightenment and the Death of God, 10 June 2014
76 Who do I think I am?, 20 June 2014
77 A fairytale but, oh, so feeble: A review of Nicholas Wade’s A Troublesome Inheritance, 28 June 2014
78 The monster that Israel helped create, 17 July 2014
79 Sacred cows and a Trojan Horse, 20 July 2014
80 The Death of God and the Fall of Man, 30 July 2014
81 As if still burning, 6 August 2014
82 Is there something about Islam?, 12 August 2014
83 The many myths of identity, the many ways of being me, 28 August 2014
84 Scottish independence: From what, for what? 5 September 2014
85 From honour to justice, 8 September 2014
86 Mo Tzu, lost in history, 14 September 2014
87 Islam’s lost traditions, 17 September 2014
88 Exhibit B and thinking for oneself, 28 September 2014
89 Hatreds, old and new, 8 October 2014
90 What’s the problem with multiculturalism? 16 October 2014
91 Populism: What, why, how? 5 November 2014
92 The wrong kind of panic, 10 November 2014
93 On The Death of Klinghoffer, 13 November 2014
94 Germany, Britain and the angel of history, 22 November 2014
95 From an unexpected perspective, 30 November 2014
96 Je suis Charlie? It’s a bit late, 8 January 2015
97 Assimilationism vs multiculturalism, 12 January 2015
98 How a bunch of vicious chancers became men of wisdom, 25 January 2015
99 Radical Islam and the rage against modernity, 28 January 2015
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