Magazine Rack - Issue 34

You might enjoy:

• In The Economist: How to deal with a falling population. Worries about a population explosion have been replaced by fears of decline
• James Campbell in The Spectator: John Howard has won four successive general elections in Australia on solidly right-wing platforms. But he is now facing defeat at the polls later this year
• Martin Bright in New Statesman: The new Prime Minister has survived his first floods and his first terrorist threat while his Conservative adversary has floundered - all in a month
• Roger Scruton in Prospect: Today's atheist polemics ignore the main insight of the anthropology of religion — that religion is not primarily about God, but about the human need for the sacred. As René Girard argues, religion is not the cause of violence, but the solution to it