Stuart Sim visits George Pelecanos's mean streets
Amid the battered bankers and pessimistic pundits why are humanists so happy?
Stephen Howe chases the storm of controversy surrounding the ideas of Edward Said
As the Universal Declaration of Human Rights celebrates its 60th birthday in December, Conor Gearty calls for a fresh definition of this most humanist value
Banks collapsing, homes repossessed, jobs disappearing . . . no wonder the world is in despair. Steven Lukes turns to Durkheim to make sense of the real depression
Caroline Moorehead reviews an impressive new series on censorship
Why do women screech when men shout? Sally Feldman explores the sexual politics of the voice
Paul Sims finds out what’s behind the anarchic anti-cult group Anonymous
Elizabeth Wilson on the new scapegoats
Caspar Melville unravels the rise and fall of dreadlocks