Caspar Melville remembers a melancholic master, the novelist Kurt Vonnegut
Alvar Aalto's organic modernism may be seductive. But, warns Owen Hatherley, it can also lead to the banal
Buddhism is fatalistic, deeply misogynist and riven with superstition. And yet, argues Karen Connelly, it also inspires resistance to tyranny and the fight for freedom
Jonathan Derbyshire is unthreatened by an enlightenment sceptic
Colin Brewer on Jean Meslier, a priest who left a deathbed bombshell
AC Grayling finds that in the work of leading philosopher John Gray, everything is the wrong way round and upside down
Its not just the flickering flames, the calm and cool that humanists are giving up, argues Sally Feldman. It's a precious part of themselves
What is the outspoken French atheist philosopher Michel Onfray really saying? Caspar Melville meets him and canvasses some expert opinion.
In the fledgling Stormont democracy, discovers Newton Emerson, some are more equal than others
Ahead of a critical election columnist Ahmet Altan warns that his country’s current political crisis could have fateful consequences for us all