Ideas

Editorial: Top Marx

Editorial: Top Marx

What has happened to Marxism? And in particular, the angry passionate British Marxist intellectuals, who used to so enliven politics in the '60s and '70s?

Spinoza the atheist

Spinoza the atheist

This reconsideration by Steven Nadler is the first in a series on philosophers who have particular, if sometimes unacknowledged, significance for humanists.

Adam Curtis images

Fail better

Nina Power says the centenary of Samuel Beckett's birth is worth celebrating

Meme Wars (part 1)

Meme Wars (part 1)

Evolution cannot explain culture: there are limits to the uses of Darwinism, says Adam Kuper

Meme Wars (part 2)

Meme Wars (part 2)

Natural selection applies to everything. Ideas evolve just as life does, says Susan Blackmore

Pleasure principles

Pleasure principles

In the second of our series on thinkers who are significant for humanism, Peter Cave marks the 200th anniversary of the birth of John Stuart Mill

Best of enemies

Best of enemies

Capitalism and central planning need each other, argues Steven Lukes

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