Ideas

Stuart Hall

Stuart Hall

Stuart Hall talks to Laurie Taylor about race, relativism and revolution

Test-tube truths

Test-tube truths

Should science guide our moral decisions? Kenan Malik puts Sam Harris's latest argument under the microscope

Rhyme & reason

Rhyme & reason

200 years ago Percy Bysshe Shelley was expelled from Oxford for publishing ‘The Necessity of Atheism’. Jonathan Rée reassesses the romantic poet’s rationalism

Delusions of grandeur

Delusions of grandeur

Information systems professor Ian Angell tells Laurie Taylor where science has gone wrong

Frankenstein

Playing God

With Danny Boyle's production of Frankenstein due to open at the National Theatre in February, Philip Ball looks at the timeless fascination, and consequences, of the monster myth

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