AC Grayling finds that in the work of leading philosopher John Gray, everything is the wrong way round and upside down
What is the outspoken French atheist philosopher Michel Onfray really saying? Caspar Melville meets him and canvasses some expert opinion.
From Blackadder to Four Weddings and a Funeral Richard Curtis has made millions out of making us laugh. He tells Laurie Taylor why comedy has a duty to bring relief
Lynda Nead takes in the National Gallery's new show
Nick Cohen reflects on the book that changed his mind about Bush and Blair's war on terror
With everyone talking about the need for 'respect' Martin Rowson reckons it's time to come clean about what they really mean
There can be no compromise on the universality of human rights. And cultural relativism both compromises women's rights and justifies sexual apartheid.
Continuing our series of thinkers who have been important for humanism, Brian McClinton puts in a bid for Shakespeare.
Continuing our series reclaiming thinkers for humanism, AC Grayling celebrates Immanuel Kant
What has happened to Marxism? And in particular, the angry passionate British Marxist intellectuals, who used to so enliven politics in the '60s and '70s?