Charlie Hebdo

Parting Gift

Sudeep Paul

A below-the-belt kick

The Root Cause II

Minhaz Merchant

Hindus are a safe target for stand-up comedians

The Right Not to be Killed

Madhavankutty Pillai

Charlie Hebdo republishes the cartoons and makes a point about free speech

Being and Nothingness

S Prasannarajan

Michel Houellebecq: The novelist as the pathologist of Europe

A Requiem for the Year of God and Fear

S Prasannarajan

And still we cannot have an honest conversation on Islam

Vive Paris: The Beginning of History

Bennett Voyles

What 13 November means for our newly tribal world

Vive Paris: From the Open Archives

Ayaan Hirsi Ali

Open has been consistent in writing about the ideas that shape the future and divide the present, and no idea concentrates the global mind as much as radical Islamism does today. Here we carry excerpts from the past pages of the magazine, and taken together, the following views by our first-rate contributors tell us that we haven’t travelled much from that horrifying day in January this year in Paris