Intelligent design
Jonathan Derbyshire witnesses the strange death of the public thinker
Ideas
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
Capitalism and central planning need each other, argues Steven Lukes
Reasonable bounds
Continuing our series reclaiming thinkers for humanism, AC Grayling celebrates Immanuel Kant
Identity crisis
Stressing racial differences leads to separatism, argues Elisabeth Lasch-Quinn
Uncommon decency
We must reclaim the language of human rights, says Conor Gearty
Hare brained
Nina Power reviews Zeno's Tortoise
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?
Culture’s revenge: Laurie Taylor interviews Stuart Hall
Disillusioned but not defeated, Stuart Hall talks to Laurie Taylor about the limits of liberalism
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.