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• No appeasement

  If liberal Britain is ailing we have only ourselves to blame, says Nick Cohen

• Blog standard

  How well does online punditry translate on the printed page? Stephen Howe finds out

• Book Review: Questions of Truth: God, Science and Belief by John Polkinghorne and Nicholas Beale

  AC Grayling rips into the latest attempt to bridge the God-science gap

• On the trail of the red pilgrims

  The philosopher Michail Ryklin tells Caspar Melville what really motivated communism's faithful followers

• The Artist, the Philosopher and the Warrior by Paul Strathern

  Brenda Maddox enjoys some Renaissance history

• True disbelievers

  Being faith-less is no excuse for rewriting history, says Theodore Dalrymple

• Thinkers: Thomas Aquinas

  Thomas Aquinas does not deserve his reputation as a friend of reason, argues Shadia Drury

• Aquinas and Modernity by Shadia Drury

  Jenny Bunker rues a missed opportunity

• The Philosopher and the Wolf by Mark Rowlands

  Nina Power takes philosophy lessons from a wolf

• Dangerous mind?

  Stephen Howe chases the storm of controversy surrounding the ideas of Edward Said