Battle of the Babies
A new book argues that liberal secularism and high birth rates are fuelling a revival of religious fundamentalism. Caspar Melville speaks to its author Eric Kaufmann
Ideas
The last of the bohemians
Tom McDonough celebrates the subversive poetic vision of the Situationists
Man & other beasts
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
Beyond nature
The human finger points the way to what makes us truly human, say Raymond Tallis
Editorial: Bishops, belief and barnets
Catholic child abuse scandals highlight the dangers of religious privilege
Logicomix: An Epic Search for the Truth by Apostolous Doxiadis & Christos Papadimitriou
Marcus Chown enjoys a graphic maths lesson
Testament by Jean Meslier
Colin Brewer admires the last testament of an atheist priest
Who needs God?
Why is religion on the rise in so many different countries? Tom Rees finds the missing link
Head to head
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…
How to defend the Enlightenment
A full transcript of the discussion between Anthony Grayling and Tzvetan Todorov in London, December 2009