A new book argues that liberal secularism and high birth rates are fuelling a revival of religious fundamentalism. Caspar Melville speaks to its author Eric Kaufmann
Tom McDonough celebrates the subversive poetic vision of the Situationists
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Colin Brewer admires the last testament of an atheist priest
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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
A full transcript of the discussion between Anthony Grayling and Tzvetan Todorov in London, December 2009