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• Hare brained

  Nina Power reviews Zeno's Tortoise

• Remarkable things

  How should sociology respond to a globalised world? Les Back recommends a return to the link between individual stories and the bigger picture

• United states?

  Kalypso Nicolaïdis puts her faith in the idea of Europe

• Game theory

  Peter Cave tries some thought experiments

• Very big ideas

  Julian Baggini weighs up a hefty tome

• Defender of faiths: Laurie Taylor interviews Eileen Barker

  Eileen Barker, the world's leading expert on religious cults, tells Laurie Taylor how it takes an agnostic to truly understand why people choose to believe

• Slippery slope

  Richard Norman assesses the arguments for the final choice

• Good Thinking

  Jonathan Derbyshire thinks, therefore it must be Descartes

• Classic Intellectual

  AC Grayling admires Umberto Eco's new opus

• Is God a hedgehog?

  Martin Rowson has some terrible thoughts