The no-prisoner Naledi wars
DREW FORREST looks at the fierce academic controversies ignited by South Africa’s most recent hominin find
The God Edition | Searching among the bones for Homo naledi’s soul
Drew Forrest uses one of South Africa’s most important hominid discoveries to debate the paradoxes and contradictions inherent in the religious doctrine of ‘ensoulment’
US state and the capture of JD Vance
The United States’ vice-president has risen with lightning speed from hardscrabble beginnings
The riddle of the missing genes
The roots of group violence in the deep past may explain the atrocities that are committed today
Mishima’s masterpiece reborn
The resurgence of Japanese fiction owes much to the controversial genius of Yukio Mishima. Drew Forrest re-examines his final novel cycle
Israel’s ‘settler logic of elimination’
Israel’s seemingly limitless brutality is rooted in ‘the logic of dehumanisation’
The British Empire’s impact on Ireland’s Great Hunger
Drew Forrest looks at the role of Victorian laissez-faire in the terrible Irish famine
A tale of two risings: Ireland and South Africa
There are marked parallels between the two countries’ liberation wars
An epic hurling battle and football fever at Dublin’s Croke Park
DREW FORREST takes in a traditional Gaelic pastime at Ireland’s biggest sports arena
Taking pot shots at Polanski
The director’s masterful, technically brilliant work is lacking in humanity