Sociologist Stan Cohen, who died on 7 January 2013, spent his life analysing and opposing injustice and inhumanity. In this extended interview from 2004, he talks to his friend and collaborator Laurie Taylor about torture, social control and our extraordinary capacity to deny
The Libet Experiments showed we have no control over our actions. Or did they? Alfred Mele still managed to write a critique of them
Julian Baggini on a new book of rationalism
Orlando Radice learns about love from the grand old man of sociology
Laurie Taylor has an appetite for the incomprehensible
Book Review: AC Grayling on Hope and Memory by Tzvetan Todorov
Finn Bowring argues that bio–technology threatens the very meaning of humanity.
Frances Crook on Peter Hitchens' History of Crime
Finn Bowring on freedom and constraint
Raymond Tallis revisits the big question: what makes humans special?