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  • Through the looking glass

    AC Grayling finds that in the work of leading philosopher John Gray, everything is the wrong way round and upside down

  • Atheism à la mode

    What is the outspoken French atheist philosopher Michel Onfray really saying? Caspar Melville meets him and canvasses some expert opinion.

  • Charity Balls: Laurie Taylor Interviews Richard Curtis

    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

  • Hopeless romantics

    Lynda Nead takes in the National Gallery’'s new show

  • Left behind

    Nick Cohen reflects on the book that changed his mind about Bush and Blair's war on terror

  • Lobbing Horseshit

    With everyone talking about the need for 'respect' Martin Rowson reckons it's time to come clean about what they really mean

  • Islam and Sexual Apartheid

    There can be no compromise on the universality of human rights. And cultural relativism both compromises women's rights and justifies sexual apartheid.

  • Thinker: William Shakespeare

    Continuing our series of thinkers who have been important for humanism, Brian McClinton puts in a bid for Shakespeare.

  • Reasonable bounds

    Continuing our series reclaiming thinkers for humanism, AC Grayling celebrates Immanuel Kant

  • Editorial: Top Marx

    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?