Something to declare
As the Universal Declaration of Human Rights celebrates its 60th birthday in December, Conor Gearty calls for a fresh definition of this most humanist value
Human Rights & Ethics
Zero confidence
Banks collapsing, homes repossessed, jobs disappearing . . . no wonder the world is in despair. Steven Lukes turns to Durkheim to make sense of the real depression
Manifestos for the 21st Century
Caroline Moorehead reviews an impressive new series on censorship
Speak up
Why do women screech when men shout? Sally Feldman explores the sexual politics of the voice
Unmasked
Paul Sims finds out what’s behind the anarchic anti-cult group Anonymous
Fathers under fire
Elizabeth Wilson on the new scapegoats
Roots
Caspar Melville unravels the rise and fall of dreadlocks
Gender traitors
From 19th century anti-suffragists to today’s anti-feminists, Sally Feldman finds a common link between women who turn against themselves
Mistaken identity
Obsessing about culture traps people in their own history, argues Kenan Malik
Art or puffery? A defence of advertising
An adman for almost 50 years Winston Fletcher explores the art, and ethics, of the sell