This interview of Simon Critchley was conducted by Alistair Welchman and ranges over the following topics: Saint Paul (and the recent readings of him by Critchley himself, Jacob Taubes, Giorgio Agamben and Alain Badiou); Alain Badiou and the notion of the "absolutely new;" Gnosticism (Marcion); Occupy Wall Street; science fiction; nihilism; Hamlet and tragedy; faith; the "demand" and Europe.