ulture p. 50 Futures The ethics of exploring other planets By Yiannis Baboulias p. 54 Rites How the fear of death gave birth to religion By Lewis Wolpert p. 58 Technology Are dating apps dehumanising us? By Joana Ramiro p. 62 Memoir Patricia Lockwood on growing up with a father who became a priest By Jonathan Rée
Books p. 66 Reviews Niki Seth-Smith on how writers imagine Englishness; Ralph Jones on Adam and Eve; Lucy Popescu on migration; Andrew Mueller on the end of Europe poetry p. 53 Martin Glaz Serup p. 57 Gerard Smyth p. 61 Gili Haimovich p. 65 Vano Krueger ontributors Samira Ahmed is a writer and BBC radio presenter
Yiannis Baboulias is a writer based in Athens Ceri Brenner is a physicist who works for the Science and Technology Facilities Council
Wendy Brown is a professor of political science at the University of California, Berkeley and the author of books including Undoing the Demos: Neoliberalism’s Stealth Revolution (Zone) Marcus Chown is a science author and his latest book is The Ascent of Gravity (Weidenfeld & Nicolson)
Ralph Jones is a writer and comedian
Rhian E Jones writes about politics and popular culture; her most recent book is the collection Under My Thumb: Songs That Hate Women and the Women Who Love Them (Repeater)
Rebecca Kenna is a documentary film-maker Lydia Leon is a researcher in women’s health at the University of London Mark Lorch is a lecturer in chemistry at Hull University Chris Maslanka is the author of puzzle books Andrew Mueller is the author of I Wouldn’t Start from Here: The 21st Century and Where It All Went Wrong (Portobello)
JP O’Malley interviews fiction and non-fiction authors for a range of publications Massimo Pigliucci is a professor of philosophy at CUNY-City College in New York and is the author of How to Be a Stoic: Ancient Wisdom for Modern Living (Rider) Lucy Popescu is a literary critic
James Poulter is a writer and web developer
Joana Ramiro writes about politics, sex and popular culture
Jonathan Rée is a freelance philosopher and historian Michael Rosen is a poet and novelist Martin Rowson is a cartoonist and author Angela Saini is the author of Inferior: How Science Got Women Wrong (Fourth Estate) Niki Seth-Smith is writing a near-future novel Laurie Taylor is president of the Rationalist Association
Francis Wade is the author of Myanmar’s Enemy Within: Buddhist Violence and the Making of a Muslim “Other” (Zed) Lewis Wolpert is an emeritus professor of biology at University College London and an honorary associate of the Rationalist Association
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