We’ve all done it. You say what you have to say to get things done, with little regard for the truth. Louis Brooke asks: does it matter?
2. Derrida vs. the rationalists
Derrida’s famously difficult thought is often dismissed as “post-modern” nonsense. Is there is more to it than might first appear, argues Peter Salmon.
3. A politics of humanism can help build a just, free and more equal world
Intolerance and bigotry are in the ascendant. In the cover feature from our Spring issue, part of a special package on democracy and its discontents, Owen Jones surveys the challenges ahead.
4. Is it too soon to laugh about apartheid?
In post-apartheid South Africa, comedy has become the expression of a new democratic energy, writes Caroline Crampton.
5. The legacy of Islamic philosophy
Although they worked within a religious framework, many philosophers in the Islamic world were pioneers of rational thought.
