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Who are you calling a fanatic? (by Alberto Toscano, July/August 2010 ): Rationalists should think twice about using a term which has, in its day, been used to condemn those who struggle for freedom and equality, says Alberto Toscano
Head to head (by AC Grayling, January/February 2010 ): When we heard that Tzvetan Todorov, author of In Defence of the Enlightenment, was coming to London we couldn’t resist getting him together with our very own contemporary philosophe, AC Grayling, to discuss the new book and the legacy of the great 18th-century republic of letters
Revolutionising Tom Paine (by Trevor Griffiths, July/August 2008 ): Recording his new radio play, Trevor Griffiths discovered the true revolutionary spirit of Tom Paine
Heights of madness (by Sally Feldman, May/June 2008 ): As Sex and the City totters on to the big screen, Sally Feldman celebrates the agony and the ecstasy of the stiletto
The Roads to Modernity: the British, French and American Enlightenments by Gertrude Himmelfarb (by Stephen Howe, May/June 2008 ): Stephen Howe asks why Gordon Brown is endorsing Neocon history
Native son (by Murray Pittock, September/October 2007 ): 175 years after the death of Scotland’s most celebrated novelist, Murray Pittock asks if Walter Scott was an enemy of the Enlightenment, or its champion
The Threat to Reason by Dan Hind (by Jonathan Derbyshire, July/August 2007 ): Jonathan Derbyshire is unthreatened by an enlightenment sceptic
Who turned off the light? (by Abdelwahab Meddeb, January/February 2007 ): Abdelwahab Meddeb considers why radical thinking has failed to penetrate the Arab world
Sailing to Byzantium (by Christopher Lord, November/December 2004 ): Anti-Enlightenment dogma is creeping into public life in Orthodox eastern Europe, says Christopher Lord
Freedom From Ghosts (by AC Grayling, Autumn 2002 ): Tzvetan Todorov's Imperfect Garden, reviewed by AC Grayling
Outlooks on Enlightenment (by Simon Blackburn, Spring 2002 ): Simon Blackburn, Professor of Philosophy at Cambridge University and a member of the Humanist Philosophers' Group, takes a look at the relative merits of relativism, scepticism and humanism
Weapons of Civilisation (by Sanal Edamaruku, Winter 2001 ): There's only one really effective weapon in the war against terrorism. And that's the principles of Enlightenment civilisation, says Sanal Edamaruku
Towards Enlightenment (by Frank Furedi, Spring 2001 ): Politics needs Enlightenment says Frank Furedi
How to defend the Enlightenment (by AC Grayling, Web Exclusive, January 2010): A full transcript of the discussion between Anthony Grayling and Tzvetan Todorov in London, December 2009