Humanism is under attack in the academy for its assumption of man’s superiority over animals. John Appleby visits the intellectual borderland between humans and animals
Running the BHA is daunting but very exciting, says Andrew Copson
Marcus Chown enjoys a graphic maths lesson
Colin Brewer admires the last testament of an atheist priest
A series of new care centres shows modern architecture rediscovering its humanity. Ken Worpole takes the tour
National Secular Society president Terry Sanderson reveals his true feelings about religion
Why is religion on the rise in so many different countries? Tom Rees finds the missing link
When we heard that Tzvetan Todorov, author of In Defence of the Enlightenment, was coming to London we couldn’t resist getting him together with our very own contemporary philosophe, AC Grayling, to discuss the new book and the legacy of the great 18th-century republic of letters
Paul Sims speaks to Marc Headley, the Scientology escapee now revealing what life is really like on the inside
A full transcript of the discussion between Anthony Grayling and Tzvetan Todorov in London, December 2009