Learning to think
Jonathan Derbyshire gets thinking with David Papineau
Culture
Diderot’s triumph
Haydn Mason consults the original humanist bible
Utopian rallying call
Stan Cohen salutes Edward Said's last book
Where’s the action?
Jeremy Stangroom has enough of haçiendas
Writer’s block
Sally Feldman on a flawed portrait of Henry James
God of small meetings
Laurie Taylor asks for a show of hands. Wine will be served later
‘Witless Vulgarity’
A new study of reality TV audiences challenges lazy assumptions about the shows and their viewers. Annette Hill wants the critics to take a fresh look
Frontline Films
Mitchell Miller on two close-up views of the Arab-Israeli conflict
Double Exposure
A poem by Fleur Adcock
Pie in the sky
Laurie Taylor tastes the delights of a very creative city